Latent metonymical analysis and indexing (LMAI)

ABSTRACT

The present invention relates to Latent Metonymical analysis and Indexing (LMai) is a novel concept for Advance Machine Learning or Unsupervised Machine Learning Techniques, which uses a statistical approach to identify the relationship between the words in a set of given documents (Unstructured Data). This approach does not necessarily need training data to make decisions on matching the related words together but actually has the ability to do the classification by itself. All that is needed is to give the algorithm a set of natural documents. The method is elegant enough to classify the relationships automatically without any human guidance during the process as shown in FIGS.  6  and  7.

FIELD OF THE INVENTION

Latent Metonymical Analysis and Indexing (LMai) is a novel concept forAdvance Machine Learning or Unsupervised Machine Learning Techniques,which uses a mathematical approach to identify the relationship betweenthe words in a set of given documents (Unstructured Data). This approachdoes not necessarily need training data to make decisions on clusteringthe related words together but actually has the ability to do theclassification by itself. All that is needed, is to give the algorithm aset of natural documents. The algorithm is elegant enough to organizethe relationships automatically without any human guidance during theprocess.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION AND PRIOR ART

LMai is an algorithm that explains the process of how machines canidentify the relationship between the words automatically and act asguidance system to humans. To realize the above statement, LMai portrayscertain novel techniques, by virtue of which it is possible for amachine to make good judgment of word relationship. Hence, LMai depictsinformation about a novel term decomposition technique, which is used todecompose words of less importance to extract useful or informativewords or Keywords from the given document. A process by which the Topicof a document is automatically extracted; and a process by which therelationship between the Topics and the Keywords is established toidentify the words that are related to each other. Further, the benefitsof implementing LMai into various applications are discussed. One suchapplication being the usage of LMai in Search Engines is explained.

Usually Search Engines retrieve data based on the relevance, page rankand other related criteria. If LMai is plugged into these types ofSearch Engines, LMai enhances the Search Engine capability to a greatextent wherein context based results is portrayed to the end user.

A point to be noted is that Search Engines, which retrieve data based onthe relevance, page rank seldom portray context based results.

LMai is not a search engine from scratch; it is an algorithm that iscapable of identifying the related words from a set of documentsautomatically. For any given domain ex: Medical for instance, it needsan expert/doctor to map the related terms together. If “Heart Surgery”were to be the Keyword, a doctor would imply “Open Heart Surgery”,Minimal Invasive Heart”, “Heart Attack”, “Heart Bypass Surgery”,“Vascular Surgery”, “Angioplasty”, “Cardiac Catheterization” etc to berelated to “Heart Surgery”. LMai defines this kind of relationshipautomatically without any set of training data. This is indeed apowerful feature; wherein a machine tries to behave like an expert,although not to an accuracy of 100% but it positively portrays veryconvincing results.

The some of the prior arts, which are related to our field oftechnology, are given below for the ready reference. Distinction betweenpresent technology and the prior arts also explained at the end of theprior art.

Document D1: U.S. Pat. No. 5,465,320—Method of automated learning, anapparatus therefore, and a system incorporating such an apparatus.

This invention discloses automated learning techniques by using neuralnetworks. In order to speed up and simplify automated learning of rulesby a neural network making use of fuzzy logic, data from a system isanalyzed by a teaching data creation means which groups the data intoclusters and then selects a representative data item from each group forsubsequent analysis. The selected data items are passed to a ruleextraction means which investigates relationships between the dataitems, to derive rules, but eliminates rules which have only aninsignificant effect on the system. The results are candidate ruleswhich are stored in a first rule base. The candidate rules are thencompared with rules in a second rule base to check for duplicationand/or contradiction. Only those rules which are not duplicated and notcontradictory are stored in the second rule base. Hence, when fuzzyinference is used to control the system on the basis of rules in thesecond rule base, only valid rules which provide a significant effect onthe system are used.

Document D2: United States Patent Application 20060217818 (SemanticallySpecified Syntactic Analysis)—Learning/thinking machine andlearning/thinking method based on structured knowledge, computer system,and information generation method.

The Document D2 provides a learning machine capable ofexpressing/accumulating concept and semantic relation by understandingsemantic relation of information as a relation between concepts aftercharacteristics, semantic relation and structure of information and thelike have been analyzed. The Document D2 is intended to realize athinking machine in which information is inclusively collected andstored as knowledge structured based on the semantic relation of thecollected information, information is generated by predeterminedinference so as to have a new semantic relation in response to aninquiry or request and which can decide an optimal solution to aninquiry and the like by evaluating/deciding new generated information.

The object of D2 is achieved through a learning/thinking method based ona structured knowledge comprising: a knowledge input step for inputtinginclusively collected data, information and knowledge; a knowledgestructuring step in which a semantic relation is extracted from saidinputted data, information and knowledge in accordance with a pluralityof rules, meaning of information is analyzed based on said extractedsemantic relation, a link indicates a semantic relation between a nodeand a node for indicating a meaning, said node and said link havestructures so as to exchange their roles and structured knowledgeexpressed by said node and said link is stored; an informationgenerating step for generating new information by predeterminedinference such that a knowledge structured by said node and said linkbased on said semantic relation has new semantic content and semanticrelation; a value judging step for evaluating and judging a newknowledge of generated information by verifying said informationgenerated result with said knowledge base; a knowledge increasing stepfor accumulating said evaluated/judged result and new informationgenerated knowledge in said knowledge base to increase knowledge; and anoptimal solution deciding step for deciding and outputting an optimalsolution in response to an inquiry or request from then outside, whereinsaid information generating step comprises: a relating node retrievingstep for retrieving only a unit in which a relating node is stored; arelating link retrieving step for retrieving only a unit in which arelating link is stored; and a step for executing inference by using atleast any one of analogical reasoning, inductive inference, abductionand association based on a retrieved result of said relating noderetrieving step or said relating link retrieving step.

Document D3: U.S. Pat. No. 6,944,612 Structured Contextual ClusteringMethod and System in a Federated Search Engine

This document discloses a federated search engine which groups searchresults from information sources using attributes of the search results.In grouping the search results, a first set and a second set ofattributes are extracted from content in each set of search resultsreceived using information source wrappers. The first set of attributesdefines a main clustering strategy, and the second set of attributesdefines a sub-clustering strategy. A main grouping of the sets of searchresults received from the information sources is generated using thefirst set of attributes. The main grouping of search results includes aplurality of labeled groups with a plurality of search results in eachgroup. A sub-grouping of search results is generated for each labeledgroup of search results in the main grouping of search results using thesecond set of attributes.

Document D4: U.S. Pat. No. 7,107,254 Probablistic Models and Methods forCombining Multiple Content Classifiers

The invention applies a probabilistic approach to combining evidenceregarding the correct classification of items. Training data and machinelearning techniques are used to construct probabilistic dependencymodels that effectively utilize evidence. The evidence includes theoutputs of one or more classifiers and optionally one or morereliability indicators. The reliability indicators are, in a broadsense, attributes of the items being classified. These attributes caninclude characteristics of an item, source of an item, and meta-leveloutputs of classifiers applied to the item. The resulting models includemeta-classifiers, which combine evidence from two or more classifiers,and tuned classifiers, which use reliability indicators to inform theinterpretation of classical classifier outputs. The invention alsoprovides systems and methods for identifying new reliability indicators.

The probabilistic dependency models generated and trained byprobabilistic dependency model builder are models that makeclassification predictions using a probabilistic approach to combiningevidence. Examples of probabilistic dependency models include decisiontrees, neural networks, and Bayesian belief networks. Where the evidenceconsidered includes the outputs of two or more classifiers,probabilistic dependency model builder can be described as a classifiercombiner and is said to produce meta-classifiers. Where the evidenceconsidered includes the outputs of only one classifier, probabilisticdependency model builder can be described as a classifier tuner.Probabilistic dependency model outputs can be of the same type asclassifier outputs and often include a confidence level or utilityassociated with a classification decision.

Document D5: KR20050013025 Method for Knowledge Information SearchService Based on Search Engine for Classification System ofPart-of-Speech on Interne

A method for a knowledge information search service based on a searchengine for a classification system of a part-of-speech on the Internetis provided to classify emotion as well as any terminology or field byusing the classification system using the part-of-speech and offer anexpansion typed knowledge information search service using theclassification system. CONSTITUTION: An information searchclassification system uses the part-of-speech classification system. Aquery sentence made by including a word classified in the part-of-speechclassification system is one knowledge information unit. One querysentence, which is the knowledge information unit, is classified intothe search classification system by classifying each word in the querysentence into each detail part-of-speech.

Though, all the documents D1 to D5 are related to Machine learningsystem and method thereof, but differ in the methodology used to achieveunsupervised machine learning.

Further, none of the documents D1 to D5 disclose the machine learning byLMai-Latent Metonymical Analysis and Indexing based algorithm. The cruxof our invention lies in novel mathematical approach to identify therelationship between the words in a set of given documents (UnstructuredData). This technique or the algorithm does not necessarily needtraining data to make decisions on matching the related words togetherbut actually has the ability to do the classification by itself. Allthat is needed is to give the algorithm a set of natural documents.

Document D1 is based on automated learning techniques which are achievedby using neural networks making use of fuzzy logic whereas ourtechnology is not based on neural networks.

Document D2 explains a learning machine capable ofexpressing/accumulating concept and semantic relation by understandingsemantic relation of information as a relation between concepts aftercharacteristics, semantic relation and structure of information and thelike have been analyzed.

By way of comparing our technology with document D2, we can clearly makeout the difference like cited technology is completely based onSemantically Specified Syntactic Analysis which is not in our case. Ourinstant technology is not a mere semantic relation algorithm. Ourinstant technology does not necessarily need training data to makedecisions on matching the related words together but actually has theability to do the classification by itself.

Neither of the documents D1 and D2 talks about unsupervised machinelearning and classifying the clusters by machine itself.

Document D3 discloses a federated search engine which groups searchresults from information sources using attributes of the search results.The document D3 fails in explaining automated learning andclassification of data into different clusters.

The document D3 Prima facie might appear to be similar to our technologybut if you look at the methodology used in creating clusters andclassifying the contents in clusters is distinct from our invention. Itdoes not talk about the automated learning and classification.

Preliminary set of clusters is created using a suffix comparison methodand attribute-specific normalization techniques are adapted to operatewith clustering methods at and that groups search results by detectingcommon suffixes between attribute content. Initially, the content ofeach specific attribute that is to be normalized is first convertedusing the attribute-specific normalization techniques into a set ofwords, so that the clustering method is able to differentiate betweenstandard ‘text’ attributes and specific attributes.

Document D4 talks about Probabilistic models and methods for combiningmultiple content classifiers.

The probabilistic dependency models generated and trained byprobabilistic dependency model builder are models that makeclassification predictions using a probabilistic approach to combiningevidence. Examples of probabilistic dependency models include decisiontrees, neural networks, and Bayesian belief networks.

This technology also mainly based on neural networks and Bayesian beliefnetworks. This technology does not give any idea of learning data bymachine automatically and classifying the data into different clusterautomatically.

Document D5 is a method for a knowledge information search service basedon a search engine for a classification system of a part-of-speech onthe Internet is provided to classify emotion as well as any terminologyor field by using the classification system using the part-of-speech.

This technology is particularly developed for searching the documents.The method used to develop classification is distinct from ourtechnology and it does not explain about unsupervised machine learningtechnique. The application of this technology is limited to searchengine only.

LMai as described earlier is a novel concept for Advance MachineLearning or Unsupervised Machine Learning Techniques, which depicts amethodology to extract the relationship between words automaticallywithout any guidance given to the machine.

LMai could be boxed as a plugin to amalgamate with applications thatneed it. In the context of this paper LMai is boxed as a plugin to siton top of an already existing Search Engine.

Related Algorithms:

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OBJECTS OF THE INVENTION

The primary object of the present invention is a concept for AdvanceMachine Learning or Unsupervised Machine Learning Techniques, which usesa mathematical approach to identify the relationship between the wordsin a set of given documents (Unstructured Data).

Yet another object of the present invention is the approach that doesnot necessarily need training data to make decisions on matching therelated words together but actually has the ability to do theclassification by itself.

Still another object of the present invention is to provide an algorithmthat is elegant enough to classify the relationships automaticallywithout any human guidance during the process.

Still another object of the present invention is a novel “Single andMulti Value Term Decomposition” (SMV-TD) technique to extract keywordsand optionally KeyTerms, and also to enhance the accuracy and to removeunwanted words or terms with less importance.

Still another object of the present invention is to provide a method foradvance machine learning technique/Unsupervised machine learning usingLatent Metonymical Analysis and Indexing (LMai) algorithm.

Still another object of the present invention is a method to identifysingle and multi value terms

Still another object of the present invention is a method to identifyTopic of a given document based on its content

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The present invention relates to a method for advance and/orunsupervised machine learning by Latent Metonymical Analysis andIndexing (LMai), said method comprising steps of inputting naturaldocuments; eliminating special characters to count number of wordswithin the given document, filtering the contents based on thepredefined stop-words and calculating the fraction of the stop-wordspresent in the document; determining Significant Single Value Term dataset and Significant Multi Value Term data set from the document beingprocessed; decomposing the words in Significant Single Value Term dataset and Significant Multi Value Term data set to extract the Keywords ofthe document being processed; optionally, determining KeyTerms and theirrespective hand-in-hand (HiH) words automatically for furtherdecomposition; identifying Topic in an unsupervised manner based notjust on File Name but also by manipulating/comparing with variouscombinations of document attributes that are extracted to identify BestTopic candidates and thereafter defining an appropriate Topic based onpredefined rules; and analyzing relationship between the Topics and theKeywords and thereafter indexing the Topics and their related Keywords,KeyTerms and their respective hand-in-hand terms into Metonymy clusterand KeyTerms HiH cluster respectively; also, a decomposition method toextract Keywords and KeyTerms from the documents, said method comprisingsteps of inputting natural documents; checking the document beingprocessed to identify the prerequisite minimal size of data and/or wordarticles/words; storing the data in a sequential order as per theiroccurrence in the document; creating two identical instances of the datato facilitate the identification of Significant Single Value Term dataset and Significant Multi Value Term data set; determining SignificantSingle Value Term from one of the instance of the data set andSignificant Multi Value Term from the other instance of the data setstarting from the highest hand-in-hand range predefined, followed byconsecutive hand-in-hand range terms of lesser dimension; storing theidentified Significant Single Value Term and Significant Multi ValueTerm of different hand-in-hand range in their respective data sets;comparing the data sets in such way that every individual hand-in-handrange term that has at least one instance of any term in SignificantSingle Value Term data set is extracted as a Keyword and the rest aredecomposed; and optionally, determining the KeyTerms based on theextracted Keywords for further decomposition; also, a method to identifyan appropriate Topic for a document based on the document content, saidmethod comprising steps of cleaning up the File Name to remove the filedot (.) extension and any alphanumeric characters; extracting the firstfew predefined number of words from the beginning of the document as theDocument Header; comparing each word in the File Name and each word inthe Document Header with every word in Significant Single Value Termdata set, to extract the words that match in two separate data sets;comparing each word in the Document Header with every word in File Nameto extract the words that match in separate data set; transferring thedata from the said individual data sets achieved into another data set;thereafter processing the data/words to determine frequency of each wordoccurrence; comparing every word in the Significant Multi Value Termdata sets of a predefined range with the File Name to extract thehand-in-hand words that match in a separate data set; comparing everyword in the Significant Multi Value Term data set of a predefined rangewith the Document Header to extract the hand-in-hand words that match ina separate data set; transferring the data from the individual data setsachieved into another separate data set; thereafter processing thedata/words to determine frequency of each word occurrence; comparison ofthe data set, which consists of words of type Single Value Term andanother data set, which consists of words of type Multi Value Term toextract those hand-in-hand words as Best Topic candidates that have atleast one instance of any of the words of type Single Value Term; anddefining an appropriate Topic based on predefined rules; also, a methodto identify relationship between Topics and Keywords from a set ofdocuments, said method comprising steps of, grouping the identicalTopics and adding their corresponding Keywords to determine theirfrequency of occurrence within the group; and extracting the Keywordsrelated to the Topic by dividing the determined frequency of eachKeyword with the frequency of Topic occurrence; thereafter comparing theobtained percentage with a predefined threshold percentage limit todetermine the Keyword that is related to the Topic; and also, a systemfor automatically identifying Keywords, KeyTerms and Topics from a setof documents and thereafter automatically identifying themetonymical/related words by Latent Metonymical Analysis and Indexing(LMai), said system comprising; document input module for providingunstructured data; means for analyzing the document; an indexing modulefor indexing/clustering Topics and their related words, and also KeyTermand their HiH terms; retrieval engine to retrieve the context basedresults from the index/cluster; and display system to display retrievedcontext based results.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF ACCOMPANYING DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 shows conversion of electronic document such as a word document,a PPT file, a TXT file or a PDF or any predetermined format into atokenized format.

FIG. 2 shows basic steps that are used to ascertain if the documentshave enough data before proceeding with the decomposition of terms toextract keywords and topics.

FIG. 3 shows steps to identify significant single value term.

FIG. 4 shows steps to identify significant multi value term.

FIG. 5 shows various data sets that are used in term decomposition

FIG. 6 shows the schematic of LMai extraction of the Topic and Keywords.

FIG. 7 shows index/clusters used to store topics and their related wordsusing LMai algorithm.

FIG. 8 shows schematic of LMai plug-in.

FIG. 9 shows process of indexing and retrieval of the data by bothRetrieval Engine and the Base Search Engine for the “Search Keyword”entered by the user.

FIG. 10 shows schematic of LMai system.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

The primary embodiment of the present invention is a method for advanceand/or unsupervised machine learning by Latent Metonymical Analysis andIndexing (LMai), said method comprising steps of inputting naturaldocuments; eliminating special characters to count number of wordswithin the given document, filtering the contents based on thepredefined stop-words and calculating the fraction of the stop-wordspresent in the document; determining Significant Single. Value Term dataset and Significant Multi Value Term data set from the document beingprocessed; decomposing the words in Significant Single Value Term dataset and Significant Multi Value Term data set to extract the Keywords ofthe document being processed; optionally, determining KeyTerms and theirrespective hand-in-hand (HiH) words automatically for furtherdecomposition; Identifying Topic in an unsupervised manner based notjust on File Name but also by manipulating/comparing with variouscombinations of document attributes that are extracted to identify BestTopic candidates and thereafter defining an appropriate Topic based onpredefined rules; and analyzing relationship between the Topics and theKeywords and thereafter indexing the Topics and their related Keywords,KeyTerms and their respective hand-in-hand terms into Metonymy clusterand KeyTerms HiH cluster respectively.

In yet another embodiment of the present invention is the method doesnot use any training data to make decision in identifying therelationship between the words.

In still another embodiment of the present invention is the methodperforms the classification of relationship between the words withoutany human guidance.

In still another embodiment of the present invention is the methoddefines appropriate Topic for a given document based on its content,although the File Name or Title Name are not appropriate.

In still another embodiment of the present invention is the methodidentifies the documents with gibberish data or data having no propermeaning to be eliminated during indexing.

In still another embodiment of the present invention is the document isan electronic document selected from a group comprising PPT file, HTMLfile, DOC file, PDF file or any other predetermined format convertedinto tokenized format before the data is given to the method.

In still another embodiment of the present invention is the documentshaving stop-words less than or equal to predetermined percentage,preferably 15% are not processed further to identify Keywords andTopics.

In still another embodiment of the present invention is the method isboxed/designed in a way to act as a plug-in to connect to any typicalsearch engine, which indexes and retrieves unstructured data.

In still another embodiment of the present invention is for everydocument returned by the Base Search Engine as a Search Result, LMaiextracts the corresponding Topic of the document from its Index for thefirst few predefined number of search results returned; thereafter thefrequency occurrence of each Topic is calculated and based on apredefined threshold value of frequency of the Topics, relationship isidentified to obtain context based results.

In still another embodiment of the present invention is the methodreturns results for a given search keyword that match the Topic in LMaiindex along with the results returned by the base search engine.

In still another embodiment of the present invention is the methodsuggests the related Topics that match the search Keyword in separatesections in order to search within the Topic or to search relatedTopics.

In still another embodiment of the present invention is the methoddisplays the Keywords of results returned in order for the user toselect the appropriate link that matches the content they are lookingfor without having to traverse back and forth otherwise.

In still another embodiment of the present invention is a process thedocuments written in any language as long as it is tokenized.

In still another embodiment of the present invention is a methodprovides for advance and/or unsupervised machine learning in robots,guidance systems, knowledge management system, decision making machinesand/or search engines.

In still another embodiment of the present invention is the methodautomatically creates personalized search profile based on the user'sinterest by maintaining previous search information such as variouslinks the user visited and corresponding related Topics that areextracted upon each search.

In still another embodiment of the present invention is the profile isupdated dynamically based on consecutive searches performed by the user.

In still another embodiment of the present invention is the methodclassifies the documents of an organization precisely without theintervention of experts during the process using training data and/orguidance to machine.

In still another embodiment of the present invention is the methoddepicts the percentage accuracy determined during classification and thepercentage of content related to each of the sub-categories for ontologymapping.

In still another embodiment of the present invention is the documentshaving stop-words less than or equal to predetermined percentage is usedto filter out or skip the documents of other languages.

In still another embodiment of the present invention is themetonymy/relationship index created by the method is incremental and isdynamic based on new addition of data.

In still another embodiment of the present invention is a decompositionmethod to extract Keywords and KeyTerms from the documents, said methodcomprising steps of inputting natural documents; checking the documentbeing processed to identify the prerequisite minimal size of data and/orword articles/words; storing the data in a sequential order as per theiroccurrence in the document; creating two identical instances of the datato facilitate the identification of Significant Single Value Term dataset and Significant Multi Value Term data set; determining SignificantSingle Value Term from one of the instance of the data set andSignificant Multi Value Term from the other instance of the data setstarting from the highest hand-in-hand range predefined, followed byconsecutive hand-in-hand range terms of lesser dimension; storing theidentified Significant Single Value Term and Significant Multi ValueTerm of different hand-in-hand range in their respective data sets;comparing the data sets in such way that every individual hand-in-handrange term that has at least one instance of any term in SignificantSingle Value Term data set is extracted as a Keyword and the rest aredecomposed; and optionally, determining the KeyTerms based on theextracted Keywords for further decomposition.

In still another embodiment of the present invention is the document isan electronic document selected from a group comprising PPT file, HTMLfile, DOC file, PDF file or any other predetermined format convertedinto tokenized format before the data is given to the method.

In still another embodiment of the present invention is the number ofwords within the document is counted after eliminating special characterand converting the words into small case letters.

In still another embodiment of the present invention is the documentcontains less than the predefined number of words, preferably 50, is notconsidered for further processing.

In still another embodiment of the present invention is the documentshaving stop-words less than or equal to predetermined percentage,preferably 15% are not processed further.

In still another embodiment of the present invention is the methodautomatically extracts the Keywords and KeyTerms from the documentwithout any guidance or training data given to the said method.

In still another embodiment of the present invention is the method usestwo dimensions, which are the Significant Single Value Term data set andSignificant Multi Value Term data set each having the same instance ofdata that has the words stored in sequential order as per theiroccurrence in the document in order to decompose the words to identifyKeywords in the document processed.

In still another embodiment of the present invention is the SignificantMulti Value Term data set have its own predefined set of hand-in-handrange dimensions.

In still another embodiment of the present invention is the extractionof Significant Multi Value Term data set is carried out with the firststage being the extraction of the maximum hand-in-hand dimensional rangefollowed by consecutive hand-in-hand range words of lesser dimension.

In still another embodiment of the present invention is the KeyTerms isoptionally used for further decomposition of the Keywords.

In still another embodiment of the present invention is the KeyTerms andtheir corresponding hand-in-hand words are used to create an Index ofKeyTerms HiH Clusters, which is incremental.

In still another embodiment of the present invention is the Keywordsextracted are used to derive relationship with the identical Topics.

In still another embodiment of the present invention is the Keywordsextracted are used in search results returned in order for the user toselect the appropriate link that matches the content they are lookingfor without having to traverse back and forth otherwise.

In still another embodiment of the present invention is the methodclassifies the documents of an organization precisely without theintervention of experts during the process using training data and/or byguidance to machine.

In still another embodiment of the present invention is the methoddepicts the percentage accuracy determined during classification and thepercentage of content related to each of the sub-categories based on thecomparison with Keywords of the document extracted, which helps forontology mapping.

In still another embodiment of the present invention is the method foridentifying Significant Single Value Term data set from the givendocument comprises steps of; retrieving words from the data set storedin sequential order as per their occurrences in the document;eliminating special characters and/or word articles/words in thedocument by comparing with a list of predefined stop-words in order toobtain informative words in the document; processing the informativewords to determine the frequency of each word occurrence; and sortingthe processed words in order to extract a predefined number of wordswith highest frequency to identify the Significant Single Value Term.

In still another embodiment of the present invention is the documentcontains less than the predefined number of words, preferably 50, is notconsidered for further processing.

In still another embodiment of the present invention is the documentshaving stop-words less than or equal to predetermined percentage,preferably 15% are not processed further.

In still another embodiment of the present invention eliminates thestop-words helps in cleansing up the document content.

In still another embodiment of the present invention is identificationof singular and plural forms of a word are considered as identical whiledetermining the frequency.

In still another embodiment of the present invention is that the wordsare sorted in an order to extract the words with highest frequency.

In still another embodiment of the present invention is, wherein if thefrequency of the last word in a data set of predefined number of wordsis equal to the next consecutive term frequency in the data set, theneven those words are also extracted.

In still another embodiment of the present invention is, wherein themethod for identifying Significant Multi Value Term data set from thegiven document comprises steps of; retrieving words from the data setstored in sequential order as per their occurrences in the document;extracting hand-in-hand words of a predetermined range into appropriatedata sets from the retrieved words, thereafter extracting words of typeSingle Value Term that are left over by eliminating stop-words and voidvalues into a different data set; processing the extracted words in eachof the respective data set to determine frequency of each wordoccurrence; sorting the processed words in order to extract a predefinednumber of words with highest frequency in each of the respective dataset to identify Significant Multi Value Term data sets of variouspredefined hand-in-hand range dimensions; and another data set withwords of type Single Value Term, which is the residue after SignificantMulti Value Term extraction.

In still another embodiment of the present invention is, wherein thedocument contains less than the predefined number of words, preferably50, is not considered for further processing.

In still another embodiment of the present invention is, wherein thedocuments having stop-words less than or equal to predeterminedpercentage, preferably 15% are not processed further.

In still another embodiment of the present invention is, whereinsingular and plural forms of a word are converted to either singularword or plural word, preferably singular word.

In still another embodiment of the present invention is, wherein theranges of hand-in-hand words have value within the practical limits ofusage, preferably 4 or 3.

In still another embodiment of the present invention is, wherein theextraction of hand-in-hand words of predetermined range is carried outwith the extraction of words based on maximum hand-in-hand rangedimension followed by consecutive hand-in-hand range words of lesserdimension.

In still another embodiment of the present invention is, wherein thehand-in-hand words of a predetermined range is identified by takingsequential words in the order of their occurrence from the document andadding them together with a space.

In still another embodiment of the present invention is, wherein thecombination of hand-in-hand term that contain words fromStop-Lister/Stop-Words are skipped during identifying the hand-in-handterm of a predetermined range.

In still another embodiment of the present invention is, wherein duringthe process of identifying the hand-in-hand (HiH) term of apredetermined range, for every HiH term identified, its frequency isappended, then at every occurrence of the identified HiH term, isreplaced by void values.

In still another embodiment of the present invention is, wherein thedatasets used to store different dimensions of word representationcomprising the words in Significant Single Value Term and theirrespective frequencies without the elimination of words of type MultiValue Term and Significant Multi Value Term words as per theirpredefined hand-in-hand range with their respective frequencies; andanother data set of type Single Value Term with respective frequenciesof its words after the elimination of Multi Value Terms, which isbasically the residue terms left over after the extraction ofhand-in-hand terms.

In still another embodiment of the present invention is, wherein theTerm Decomposition is carried out by comparing the two dimensions, whichare Significant Single Value Term dimension and Significant Multi ValueTerm dimension in such a way that every individual hand-in-hand rangeterm that has at least one instance of any of the term in SignificantSingle Value Term dimension are extracted as Keywords and the rest aredecomposed.

In still another embodiment of the present invention is a method toidentify an appropriate Topic for a document based on the documentcontent, said method comprising steps of cleaning up the File Name toremove the file dot (.) extension and any alphanumeric characters;extracting the first few predefined number of words from the beginningof the document as the Document Header; comparing each word in the FileName and each word in the Document Header with every word in SignificantSingle Value Term data set, to extract the words that match in twoseparate data sets; comparing each word in the Document Header withevery word in File Name to extract the words that match in separate dataset; transferring the data from the said individual data sets achievedinto another data set; thereafter processing the data/words to determinefrequency of each word occurrence; comparing every word in theSignificant Multi Value Term data sets of a predefined range with theFile Name to extract the hand-in-hand words that match in a separatedata set; comparing every word in the Significant Multi Value Term dataset of a predefined range with the Document Header to extract thehand-in-hand words that match in a separate data set; transferring thedata from the individual data sets achieved into another separate dataset; thereafter processing the data/words to determine frequency of eachword occurrence; comparison of the data set achieved, which consists ofwords of type Single Value Term and another data set achieved, whichconsists of words of type Multi Value Term to extract those hand-in-handwords as Best Topic candidates that have at least one instance of any ofthe words of type Single Value Term; and defining an appropriate Topicbased on predefined rules.

In still another embodiment of the present invention is, whereinsingular and plural forms of a word are converted to either singularword or plural word, preferably singular word by comparing the words inthe file name with the words in Document Header and Significant SingleValue Term data set during File Name cleaning up process.

In still another embodiment of the present invention is, wherein thefirst few predefined number of words, preferably 15, in the beginning ofthe document are extracted as Document Header after filtering the wordsfrom the Stop-Lister and after conversion of plural forms of a word topreferably singular word.

In still another embodiment of the present invention is, wherein thefrequency of each of the hand-in-hand term that is extracted as a BestTopic candidate is compared with a predefined threshold value,preferably 3 for hand-in-hand words of range 3 and preferably 2 forhand-in-hand words of range 2 to assert the correctness.

In still another embodiment of the present invention is, wherein theTopic to a given document is defined based on predefined rules andthereafter, the Best Topic candidates' data set is checked to see, ifthere is only one such candidate, if it is asserted then that is definedas the Topic of the document.

In still another embodiment of the present invention is, wherein ifthere is more than one Best Topic candidate in the data set then thefrequency of each Best Topic candidate is calculated based on matchingthe words in Best Topic candidate with words in Significant Single ValueTerm data set to extract the corresponding frequency of each word thatmatches; Thereafter adding up the individual frequencies of each word inthe Best Topic candidate to derive the Topic with highest frequency.

In still another embodiment of the present invention is, wherein ifthere are no Best Topic candidate's extracted, then the matching wordsfrom the comparison of Significant Single Value Term and File Name arechosen as per the sequence of the word occurrence in the File Name todefine the Topic of the document.

In still another embodiment of the present invention is, wherein ifthere are no matching words extracted based on the comparison of wordsfrom Significant Single Value Term data set and File Name, then thecollective words that are extracted based various combination ofcomparison of words between the File Name, the Document Header and theSignificant Single Value Term data set is now compared with the words inSignificant Single Value Term data set and the term match that has thehighest frequency in Significant Single Value Term data set is chosen asthe Topic of the document.

In still another embodiment of the present invention is, wherein ifthere are no matching words found from the various combination ofcomparison of words between the File Name, the Document Header and theSignificant Single Value Term data set, then no Topic is defined to thedocument by the method.

In still another embodiment of the present invention is, wherein themethod would extract Keywords, KeyTerms and Topic for every documentprocessed based on the predefined rules.

In still another embodiment of the present invention is a method toidentify relationship between Topics and Keywords from a set ofdocuments, said method comprising steps of; grouping the identicalTopics and adding their corresponding Keywords to determine theirfrequency of occurrence within the group; and extracting the Keywordsrelated to the Topic by dividing the determined frequency of eachKeyword with the frequency of Topic occurrence; thereafter comparing theobtained percentage with a predefined threshold percentage limit todetermine the Keyword that is related to the Topic.

In still another embodiment of the present invention is, wherein thethreshold percentage is a value less than or equal to 100.

In still another embodiment of the present invention is, wherein eachcluster or element represents the Topic and its related words in LMaiindex created.

In still another embodiment of the present invention is, wherein if aset of new documents are added, then the New Topics extracted from thedocuments are compared with the existing Topics in the LMai index and ifa match is found for a New Topic, then it is added to the alreadyexisting element/cluster in the index with its Keywords; Thereafterprocessing to extract the new set of related Keywords to the Topic iscarried out.

In still another embodiment of the present invention is, wherein theMetonymy or Relationship list is dynamic and it changes based on thedata, therefore Metonymical/Relationship words for a given Topic isincremental.

In still another embodiment of the present invention is a system asshown in FIG. 10 for automatically identifying Keywords, KeyTerms andTopics from a set of documents and thereafter automatically identifyingthe metonymical/related words by Latent Metonymical Analysis andIndexing (LMai), said system comprising: document input module forproviding unstructured data; means for analyzing the document; anindexing module for indexing/clustering Topics and their related words,and also KeyTerm and their HiH terms; retrieval engine to retrieve thecontext based results from the index/cluster; and display system todisplay retrieved context based results.

In still another embodiment of the present invention is, wherein thedocument is an electronic document selected from a group comprising PPTfile, DOC file, PDF file or any other predetermined format convertedinto tokenized format.

In still another embodiment of the present invention is, wherein thesystem provides for automatically identifying metonymical/related termsfrom a set of documents in robotics, guidance systems, anddecision-making machine and/or search engines.

In still another embodiment of the present invention is, wherein theanalyzer is Snb analyzer.

LMai is a novel concept for Advance Machine Learning or UnsupervisedMachine Learning Techniques, which uses a mathematical approach toidentify the relationship between the words in a set of given documents(Unstructured Data). This approach does not necessarily need trainingdata to make decisions on matching the related words together butactually has the ability to do the classification by itself. All that isneeded is to give the algorithm a set of natural documents. Thealgorithm is elegant enough to classify the relationships automaticallywithout any human guidance during the process. Ex: if documents onanimals are fed to the algorithm, after processing the content in thegiven documents the algorithm creates its own knowledge base, whichwould depict relationships between the animals. Say if the user types in“Lion” as the keyword, the algorithm would suggest “Animal, Tiger,Cheetah, Leopard, Big Cat” etc. . . have relationship with the word“Lion”.

Note: the dictionary meaning of metonymy if defined as “A figure ofspeech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with whichit is closely associated”.

The term metonymy is used within the name of the algorithm, as thealgorithm would try to extract words that would be closely associated toeach other. Strictly speaking the algorithm does not just extract onlythe metonymical words but also would extract the words that have somerelationship. Hence, in this paper the words“metonymy/related/relationship” are used interchangeably. As in theabove example for “Lion” as the Keyword the algorithm would haveextracted many terms that are related, some of which are actually themetonymical terms, which are “Animal” and “Big Cat”. Both of these wordswhere, “Latent” within the documents. Also, both these words could beused to substitute for the word “Lion”. Hence, the term metonymy.

This explains the reason why we call the algorithm as “LatentMetonymical Analysis and Indexing”. Analysis and Indexing part would beclear shortly when we discuss about it.

If this algorithm where to be implemented in a robot that has visualabilities, the robot would be able to read through the documents withthe help of adjacent video to text software's and understand therelationships between the words. The benefits are obvious . . . themachine can be programmed to act as a guidance system to human. Ifadditional documents are provided the algorithm has the ability toupdate its knowledge base based on the data in the given documents.

The algorithm would depict the relationships only if enough data orterms relevant to the keyword given by the user is available and also ifthe link between them is reasonable.

To prove the capabilities of the algorithm a “Proof of Concept” isdeveloped. The LMai algorithm is implemented on a Search Engine to provethe point. There are various features that are derived from thealgorithm that help power the search engine abilities to a very greatextent.

Process:

High Level LMai Structure, Hypothesis and Technique used by theAlgorithm is as follows . . .

Documents portray information, information contained in the documentsusually depict certain specific data like Topic and the Words that aresignificant in the document. Humans read through documents to understandthe Topic on which the document is based and the important words thatare associated with the Topic. Also, Humans are capable to make goodjudgment about the document, if it makes sense or if it portraysgibberish data.

If a machine were proficient to gather important information like Topicand the other associated words from the documents, it would be possiblefor a machine to define or identify relationships between the words orTopics.

LMai is an algorithm, which makes it possible for a machine like acomputer to process electronic documents to identify the Topics and theimportant words that are associated with the document. It must not bemisunderstood that the LMai merely identifies Topics from the documentname or title but actually defines a proper Topic based on the documentcontent. This is done by primarily identifying the significant wordswithin the document first, and then based on certain rules applied onthese significant words or Keywords, Topic is defined to the document bythe algorithm.

LMai is also elegant enough to identify documents, which in general donot portray enough information to be able to define a Topic and alsoidentifies documents with gibberish data or data that has no propermeaning. LMai while Indexing eliminates documents of such type.

Although LMai does not offer 100% accuracy but has a decent accuracy inthe range of 60% to about 90% approximately.

Note: Electronic document could be a word document, a PPT file, a TXTfile, HTML file or a PDF file or any format but it must be converted toa tokenized format before the data is given to the algorithm. As shownin the FIG. 1

Novel Decomposition Technique:

LMai decomposes or filters out term/words from the document to extractthe important or significant words known as Keywords. LMai also definesan appropriate Topic to the document. This is achieved by applying aNovel words/term decomposition or words/term elimination technique.

Note that LMai primarily identifies Topic and Keywords within eachdocument as a first step in identifying the relationship betweenWords/Term.

Decomposition of Words to Extract Keywords and Topic:

Before we start the decomposition process, we have to prepare the datafor decomposition. First we need to identify significant single valueterm and multi value term from the document content, which is achievedin two levels:

-   -   1. Level 1—Identifying Significant Single Value Term    -   2. Level 2—Identifying Significant Multi Value Term

We have to also ascertain if the document has enough data and if thereare enough word articles or stop-words within the document to carry theprocess further. We call this the Basic Steps. Refer FIG. 2, whichdescribes the Basic Steps . . .

The following are the Basic Steps required:

Step 1—The Tokenized format of any electronic document is provided tothe algorithm as an input.

Step 2—Number of words within the document is counted after eliminatingspecial characters and converting all the words to small case letters(if it's a language that has capital and small letters); if the wordsare very limited say less than 50 words or no words at all then such adocument is not processed further to find out the Topic and Keywords asthe content within the document is very less to automatically identifyan appropriate Topic. If the number of words in the document is morethan 50 then all the words are stored in a sequential order as per theiroccurrence in the document (an assumption is made that the words arestored in some data set, an array could be used for this). Also a countof total number of words is calculated.

Step 3—A comprehensive list of Stop-Words is defined that primarilyconsists of word articles and words that help sentence formation asgiven below:

“a”, “and”, “are”, “as”, “at”, “be”, “but”, “by”, “that”, “for”, “if”,“in”, “into”, “is”, “it”, “no”, “not”, “of”, “on”, “or”, “such”, “t”,“to”, “was”, “will”, “with”, “about”, “after”, “again”, “against”,“all”, “also”, “always”, “am”, “an”, “another”, “any”, “away”, “back”,“both”, “because”, “been”, “before”, “being”, “between”, “become”,“became”, “came”, “can”, “cannot”, “come”, “could”, “did”, “do”, “does”,“dont”, “down”, “even”, “ever”, “every”, “for”, “from”, “get”, “give”,“go”, “going”, “got”, “had”, “has”, “have”, “he”, “her”, “here”, “him”,“himself”, “his”, “how”, “i”, “its”, “just”, “know”, “last”, “less”,“let”, “like”, “made”, “make”, “many”, “may”, “me”, “might”, “more”,“most”, “much”, “must”, “my”, “never”, “new”, “no”, “not”, “nothing”,“name”, “names”, “now”, “oh”, “once”, “only”, “other”, “others”, “our”,“ours”, “out”, “over”, “own”, “place”, “present”, “put”, “said”, “same”,“say”, “says”, “see”, “shall”, “she”, “should”, “since”, “so”, “some”,“still”, “such”, “something”, “take”, “tell”, “than”, “that”, “the”,“their”, “them”, “then”, “there”, “these”, “they”, “things”, “think”,“thing”, “this”, “those”, “thought”, “through”, “too”, “under”, “until”,“up”, “upon”, “us”, “very”, “was”, “way”, “well”, “were”, “what”,“when”, “where”, “which”, “while”, “who”, “why”, “will”, “with”,“without”, “would”, “yet”, “you”, “your” . . .. . . and many more such term/words and even numbers/special-characterswould come in as a part of the Stop-Lister.

Percentage of word articles or the stop words from the Stop-Lister iscalculated from the total number of words, if this percentage is lessthan or equal to 15% then such documents are not processed further asthey do not appear to be in a form wherein there is proper sentenceformation of the words. This helps us identify junk documents to someextent and documents with words that do not make a sentence, ex: aglossary document. Also, the Stop-words help in identifying documents ofother languages apart from English (in this case) and documents thatconsists of too many words that do not have word articles associatedwith them. It is observed that most of the documents have about 30% to40% or more percentage of the word articles, hence Stop-Lister alsohelps identify any such document that has lesser percentage ofStop-words.

Step 4—If the Step 2 and Step 3 are conceded, then two instances (or twoidentical copies) of the array “A1” and “A2” in which, all the words arestored in a sequential order as per their occurrence in the document arecreated. One is used to Identify Single Value Term and the other is usedto Identify Significant Multi Value Term.

Level 1—Identifying Significant Single Value Term:

The first step in the term decomposition is to identify the significantsingle value term. Single Value Term in this context would mean wordsthat are separated by space. Ex: “Green Anaconda” although contextuallyis one word, single value term would evaluate it as two words “Green” asone and “Anaconda” as the other. Identification of Significant SingleValue Term is described in the following steps . . . also refer FIG. 3;

Step 1—The first instance of the array (A1) in which the words arestored in a sequential order as per their occurrence in the document istaken and filtered using the Stop-Lister (refer Step 3 of Basic Stepsregarding Stop-words/Stop-Lister). Hence, this step ensures that all theword articles or stop-words in the array are eliminated or filtered outleaving behind words that actually depict information in the document.So, now we have in the array only term/words that illustrate thedocument content.

Step 2—Snb Analyzer is an analyzer that identifies plurals. As anexample to understand what this analyzer actually does is, lets takewords like—“Requirement”, “Requirements”, “apple”, “apples” etc. . . tobe some of the words in the array. The Snb Analyzer would compare theseand would give a result like—“Requirements”, “Requirements”, “apples”,“apples” or “Requirement”, “Requirement”, “apple”, “apple”, which meansit either-appends “s” or eliminates “s” respectively from similar wordsthat differ only with the letter “s” at the end of the word. In ourscenario we will eliminate “s”, hence the results we get would be“Requirement”, “Requirement”, “apple”, “apple”. Hence, we now have anarray that has words modified as described.

Note: this is an optional step as the logic to implement this may varyfor different languages, but experiments have shown better results ifthis step is included for English Language. This analysis helps toidentify similar words having singular and plural form but since theyare derived from the same word it makes sense to modify in the waydescribed above, as it helps in figuring out correct frequencies of thewords/term as described in the next step.

Step 3—The Term Frequency Counter processes the words/term in the arrayto figure out the frequency of each word occurrence. Therefore for theexample given in Step 2, Step 3 would depict frequency of words as“Requirement=2”, “apple=2”. At this stage we have an array withwords/term and their respective frequencies/weightages.

Step 4—a. After the frequency of each word occurrence is calculated, thewords are sorted in an order to extract the Words with highestfrequency.

-   -   b. If the total term/words in the array are more than 15, then        the highest first 15 are extracted. A check is made on the        15^(th) term frequency, if it is equal to the next consecutive        term frequencies in the array, then even those words/term are        extracted.    -   c. These words with highest frequencies define “Final Vector        Term 1” or “FVT-1”. These can go into a new array (FVT-1_Array).

Therefore, the above steps would give us the most significant singlevalue term within the document, which are in the data set FVT-1_Array.These words play a crucial role in the decomposition process and infiguring out the Keywords.

Level 2—Identifying Significant Multi Value Term:

The second step in the term decomposition is to identify the significantmulti value term. Multi Value Term in this context would mean words thatgo together hand-in-hand, they might be separated by space butcontextually they represent themselves as one word. Ex: “Green Anaconda”although is made up of two words, multi value term would evaluate it asone word. Other examples of Multi Value Term are “Software EngineeringProcess”, “Requirement Engineering”, “Minimally Invasive Heart Surgery”etc. . .

Note: Multi Value Term is made up two or more words that contextuallyrepresent as one word. Sometimes, it is seen that a group of 3, 4 oreven 5 words together represent as one word but in most scenarios thecommon hand-in-hand (HiH) term are of range 2, 3 and 4.

This paper covers the decomposition of HiH term of range 2 and 3.However, same principles of decomposition technique can be used for HiHterm of range 4 and 5 or higher. Higher the range of HiH termdecomposition, the better, but it must be in practical limits of usage.

Note: To identify the HiH term of range 2, 3, 4, . . . a precondition isthat there must be at least two occurrences of the HiH words, forexample if “Requirement Engineering” has to be identified from thedocument as a Multi Value Term with HiH range 2 then “RequirementEngineering” must have occurred at least twice in the document else thealgorithm would not be able to identify it as a Multi Value Term.

The logic to identify the HiH term is simple.

However, I have hinted the simple logic that one can use as describedbelow . . .

For example if the document content is something like:

*************************************************************************************************************** “Custard Apple - Both in treeand in fruit, the custard apple, Annona reticulata L, is generally ratedas the mediocre or “ugly duckling” species among the prominent membersof this genus. Its descriptive English name has been widely misappliedto other species and to the hybrid ATEMOYA, and it is sometimeserroneously termed “sugar apple”, “sweetsop” and, by Spanish-speakingpeople, “anon....” And more.....***************************************************************************************************************

Then to identify the HiH2 Term would require taking the first two wordsand adding them together with a space in between. Therefore the firsttwo words taken from the above document would represent like(“custard”+““+“apple”)→gives us “custard apple”, consider this as aFirst Element.

Now, pick the next set of words, which is (“apple”+““+“both”), since theword “both” is one of the words from the Stop-Lister “apple both” wouldnot make sense. Therefore, this is not considered for comparison withthe first element. We proceed further to identify (“both”+““+“in”),(“in”+““+“tree”), (“tree”+““+“and”), (“in”+““+“fruit”),(“the”+““+“custard”) . . . as all of these combinations contain wordsfrom Stop-Lister these are skipped to the next level, which gives us(“custard”+““+“apple”), since this combination does not have words fromStop-Lister, it is compared with the First Element, which match.

Therefore “custard apple”, is identified as one of the HiH term of rangetwo or HiH2 Term from the document. For every consecutive occurrence of“custard apple” in the document the frequency of such occurrence of“custard apple” is recorded. Also, at every such occurrence the words“custard apple” is replaced by null values (assuming we are using theArray A2).

Hence, the First Element is compared in this way with all thecombination until the end of the document. Then the Second Element,which would be “Annona reticulata”, is processed in a similar way as theFirst Element by skipping the null values and words from Stop-Listeruntil the end of document and so on to extract the other HiH2 Term.

Note: HiH Term of range 3 or HiH3 are extracted the same way as HiH2Term but first HiH3 are extracted and then HiH2 Term are extracted fromthe same document. As shown in FIG. 4

For much better accuracy also consider special characters like “,”, “.”,“-”, “:”, “;” . . . etc during the judgment of HiH Term.

Identification of Significant Multi Value Term is described as follows .. .

Stage 1—HiH Term of Range 3 Extraction:

Step 1—The second instance of the array (A2) in which the words arestored in a sequential order as per their occurrence in the document istaken and is parsed using the Snb Analyzer. (The functionality of SnbAnalyzer is described earlier in “Step 2 of Level 1”).

Step 2—HiH Term of range 3 or HiH3 term are extracted in a separatearray (HiH3 Array) and “null” values are marked at their respectiveoccurrences in the array (A2). The frequencies of the HiH3 term arecalculated based on their occurrences.

Step 3—a. After the frequency of each HiH3 term occurrence iscalculated, the words are sorted in an order to extract the Words withhighest frequency.

-   -   b. If the total number of HiH3 term in the array is more than        15, then the highest first 15 are extracted. A check is made on        the 15^(th) term frequency, if it is equal to the next        consecutive term frequencies in the array, then even those HiH3        term are extracted.

Now, the array (A2) would consist of the words apart from HiH3, wordarticles and null values (null values were replaced in place of the HiH3occurrences).

Stage 2—HiH Term of Range 2 Extraction:

Step 1—After HiH3 term are extracted from the array (A2), the same array(A2) is used to extract HiH Term of range 2 or HiH2 term in a separatearray (HiH2_Array) again “null” values are marked at their respectiveoccurrences in the array (A2). The frequencies of the HiH2 term arecalculated based on their occurrences.

Step 2—a. After the frequency of each HiH2 term occurrence iscalculated, the words are sorted in an order to extract the Words withhighest frequency.

-   -   b. If the total number of HiH2 term in the array is more than        15, then the highest first 15 are extracted. A check is made on        the 15^(th) term frequency, if it is equal to the next        consecutive term frequencies in the array, then even those HiH2        term/words are extracted.

Now, the array (A2) would consist of the words apart from HiH3, HiH2 andnull values (null values were replaced in place of the HiH3 and HiH2occurrences in Stage 1 and 2 respectively).

Array (A2) would now consist of null values, word articles or stop-wordsand words of type Single Value Term.

Stage 3—Extraction of the Single Value Term that are Left Over:

Although, Level 2 concentrates in the extraction of Multi Value Term,the processing of the left over Single Value Term is important as ithelps during the decomposition of the term that will be described later.For now, do not misunderstand that Single Value Term extraction at thisstage is redundant.

The Array (A2) is now processed to extract Single Value Term byeliminating the word articles and null values.

The steps involved in this stage are similar to the steps described in“Step 1, Step 3, Step 4” of Level 1. Step 2 is not processed as it isalready processed in Step 1 of Stage 1 (HiH Term of range 3 Extraction).

The term/words with highest frequencies extracted at this stage define“Final Vector Term 2” or “FVT-2”. These can go into a new array (FVT-2_(—Array).)

Note: If we have to extract the HiH Term of range 4 there will be “4Stages”, with the first Stage to extract HiH4 term and next to extractHiH3, HiH2 and Single Value Term FVT-2 respectively in a similar way.

Similarly, HiH Term of range 6, 5 would be carried out with the firststage being the extraction of the maximum hand-in-hand range Termfollowed by consecutive hand-in-hand range term of lesser dimension.

Summarization of the Processes:

Let us summarize what we have done as a preliminary step fordecomposition of term.

-   -   1. We followed the Basic Steps as described earlier.    -   2. Level 1—Identifying Significant Single Value Term    -   3. Level 2—Identifying Significant Multi Value Term

As seen from the FIG. 5 we now have four sets of data—

-   -   1. FVT-1_Array—contains the total number of most significant        Single Value Term and their Respective Frequencies without the        elimination of Multi Value Term.    -   2. HiH3_Array—contain the total number of most significant HiH3        Multi Value Term and their Respective Frequencies.    -   3. HiH2_Array—contain the total number of most significant HiH2        Multi Value Term and their Respective Frequencies.    -   4. FVT-2_Array—contains the total number of most significant        Single Value Term and their Respective Frequencies after the        elimination of Multi Value Term.

These four data sets play a crucial role in the decomposition process toidentify Keywords and Topic of the document being processed.

Term Decomposition:

Let us assume that the document being processed has about 1000 wordsincluding word articles. Since, the word articles and any words that areadded to the Stop-Lister are filtered, it would reduce the number ofwords to about 500 approximately. After Level 2, as only the significantterm are extracted based on their respective frequency of occurrencethere may be about 40 to 50 words approximately residing in HiH3_Array,HiH2_Array and FVT-2_Array.

These 40 to 50 words further need to be decomposed to extract theBest-Term/Words.

The Term Decomposition at this stage is derived from the followingHypothesis that the words in FVT-1_Array are the collection of all thewords in the document, which means the Words in HiH3_Array, HiH2_Arrayand FVT-2_Array would have the words that can be potentially distributedfrom FVT-1_Array.

Since FVT-1_Array consists of the most significant words in thedocument, any single or more Words of FVT-1_Array that has its presencein any of the Words present in HiH3_Array, HiH2_Array and FVT-2_Arrayare considered to be Best-Term/Words.

Hence, based on the mentioned hypothesis Term Decomposition is started.

-   -   Step 1: Every HiH3 Term in HiH3_Array is compared with every        FVT-1 Term in the FVT-1_Array. Since, every single HiH3 Term is        a combination of a 3 words/term. The set of all these 3 words in        HiH3 Term are compared with every word in FVT-1_Array. If in        case, any of the word in HiH3 Term match any of the FVT-1 term        then that HiH3 Term is extracted along with its corresponding        frequency of occurrence as one of the Best-Term. Hence, based on        this technique, it is seen that if there are about 16 HiH3 Words        in the HiH3_Array after decomposition only about 7 HiH3 Words        are extracted as the Best-Term/Word and the rest are decomposed.    -   Step 2: Similarly, the decomposition of HiH2 Term is carried        out.    -   Step 3: FVT-2_Array consists of Single Value Term after the        elimination of Multi Value Term; hence, there will be some new        set of words in FVT-2_Array that would have occupied the space        when compared to the words in FVT-1_Array. FVT-2 words are        compared with FVT-1 words and any word in FVT-2_Array that        matches any word in FVT-1_Array is extracted along with its        corresponding frequency of occurrence to be the Best-Term/Word        and the rest are decomposed.

Therefore, the Words in FVT-1_Array play a crucial role in thedecomposition of the overall words in HiH3_Array, HiH2_Array andFVT-2_Array.

The above Hypothesis however does not ensure 100% accurate decompositionof Multi Value and Single Value Term to identify the Best-Term/Words orKeywords (from now on we will use Keywords in place of Best-Term/Words)in the document but it is seen that in practical context it is true to agreat extent that HiH3, HiH2, FVT-2 words that are extracted as Keywordsdo contain FVT-1 Words.

The extracted Keywords by the algorithm from the document when examinedare of quite a decent quality, which would be near to the quality ofKeywords extracted by an average human.

Hence, the term decomposition process helps to enhance the accuracy andto remove unwanted or words with less importance, which means to saythat the algorithm is capable to know to a decent extent what term makemore sense and what term don't.

We now name our decomposition technique as:

“Single and Multi Value Term Decomposition” (SMV-TD)

Thus, the Keywords identified in the document by the algorithm now playan important role in defining a Topic to the document.

Identifying the KeyTerms:

Identifying the KeyTerms has an advantage, which we will discuss later.

The following is the way in which KeyTerms are identified . . .

As an example assume that the following are the Keywords extracted fromthe document by the algorithm:

Note: to identify the KeyTerms we do not need the frequency occurrenceof each Keyword, hence the frequency occurrences are not shown inassociation with the Keywords.

requirement management plan requirement management program requirementchange management determining development priority traceability itemrequirement management development team product lifecycle target releasetool environment software tool stakeholder request change requestproject baseline feature requirement project document release baselinecustomer Product Change Team Traceability Item management

We consider HiH3 and HiH2 term for extracting the KeyTerms (in case ofHiH4, HiH5 we need to consider even those words); hence we would omitthe Single Value Keywords from the list, which would give us thefollowing:

requirement management plan requirement management program requirementchange management determining development priority traceability itemrequirement management development team product lifecycle target releasetool environment software tool stakeholder request change requestproject baseline

Now, we consider the FVT-1_Array; assume it to be the following:

requirement management feature project item traceability change documentteam release plan product baseline request tool customer development

We now compare each FVT-1 term with each HiH3 and HiH2 term as wecompared in the Step 1 process of Term Decomposition, which wasexplained earlier.

We see that the following term in HiH3 and HiH2 match FVT-1 term

requirement management plan requirement management X requirement changemanagement X development X traceability item requirement managementdevelopment team product X X release tool X X tool X request changerequest project baseline

From the above table, which depicts the match of FVT-1 term with HiH3and HiH2, the following is the frequency of occurrence of the words thatmatch with respect to the above table. Note that the words that don'tmatch with FVT-1 term are marked as “X”.

requirement 4 management 4 change 2 tool 2 request 2 development 2 team1 product 1 release 1 traceability 1 item 1 project 1 baseline 1 plan 1

The Top Frequency Words, which in this case is “requirement” and“management”, define the KeyTerms in the document.

The respective HiH3, HiH2 term that have the term “requirement” and“management” are extracted as the HiH term of “requirement” and“management” and stored separately.

HiH for “requirement” KeyTerm would be:

requirement management plan requirement management program requirementchange management requirement management

And HiH for “management” KeyTerm would be:

requirement management plan requirement management program requirementchange management requirement management

In this case (example) the HiH for both the KeyTerms are the same.

Note: you can also consider “change”, “tool”, “request” and“development” as KeyTerms but we have to limit at some threshold. Hence,we will consider the Top frequency words to be the KeyTerms.

As you can see one advantage of identifying the KeyTerms is that, itallows us to further decompose the HiH3, HiH2 (Multi Value Term) toanother level, which means the Keywords are further decomposed to theHiH values of KeyTerms, which would give us the following:

KeyTerms also help in decomposing the Single Value Term as well, in thegiven example

Could be considered as next level of Single Value Term decomposition.Here, we extract the Single Value Term with more than one frequencyoccurrence.

Hence, the Keywords after KeyTerms Decomposition would get modified to

However, using KeyTerms for the next Level of decomposition has adisadvantage that, many of the significant term from the earlier Keywordlist would be decomposed.

Hence, depending upon the application one must limit the usage ofKeyTerms Decomposition.

It must be noted that the KeyTerms are Single Value Term that areassociated with their respective HiH term.

Important Note: to identify the relationships among the term/words wewould be using the Keywords extracted from “Term Decomposition”technique. Hence, we would not use KeyTerms Decomposition.

KeyTerms Decomposition is just mentioned here as another option todecompose the Keywords further for any application that would need thistype of decomposition process.

Defining “Topic” to the Document:

SMV-TD technique was able to extract the Keywords from the documentautomatically without any guidance or training data. Now, these Keywordsplay a very important role in defining an appropriate Topic to thedocument.

When we talk about electronic documents, most of the common documentformats have a file name and document properties or the Meta data andthe content of the document itself.

We will be interested in the File Name and the first few words in thebeginning of the document, which generally describe the document type(in most of the cases the first few words in the document cover the nameor topic of the document); we call this the Document Header.

Hence, we now concentrate on:

-   -   1. The File Name (every electronic document will have to have a        file name, whether it is comprised of text or numbers or        alphanumeric but there is a file name defined)    -   2. Document Header or DH (every document would have content in        it, note we have already eliminated documents that do not have        content or have very less content in the Basic Steps discussed        earlier). After filtering the words from the Stop-Lister and        after applying the Snb Analyzer in “Level 1”, the first 15 words        in the beginning define the Document Header. The Document Header        could be stored in an array (DH).        File Name Clean Up process:    -   1. The “*.ext” must be eliminated. Example: a file name, as        “Sample.html” has to be modified such that we get only “Sample”        and not the extension, which in this case is “.html”.    -   2. Remove any alphanumeric characters from the file name.    -   3. Since, the content of the document have been parsed through        the Snb Analyzer. Parse the file name as well with Snb Analyzer        by comparing the term in the file name with the Document Header        Term and FVT-1 Term.    -   4. Single Term Values extracted from the file name could be        stored in an array (FN).

Now, we have 3 parameters DH, FN and FVT-1.

Comparison between→DH and FN

-   -   FVT-1 and FN    -   DH and FVT-1    -   . . . is done to extract the words of type Single Value Term        that match.

Term in Array Term in Array Matching Term Array DH FN ArrayX FVT-1 FNArrayY DH FVT-1 ArrayZ

Now, transfer the term in Array_X, Array_Y and Array_Z into an array“DocDef1”. Apply Step 3 of “Level 1” to term in DocDef1, which is theTerm Frequency Counter. This will give us the frequency of the each termoccurrence.

Similarly, when we apply the same process for HiH3 and HiH2 Term thatwhere extracted as the Best-Term in Term Decomposition, we get . . .

Note: comparison of HiH3, HiH2 term with DH and FN is done as per the“logic to identify the HiH term” was explained.

Now, we have DocDef1 and DocDef2, which consists of words thatpotentially define the Topic of the document, with the difference thatDocDef1 consists of words of type Single Value Term and DocDef2,consists of words of type Multi Value Term.

Please note that we are trying to figure out the best possibility todefine a Topic to the document based not just on FN but actually we aretrying to ratify with combinations of the Keywords extracted from thedocument that will help us identify appropriate Topic to the documentbased on the content of the document.

At this stage we compare DocDef1 and DocDef2 as per the processexplained in Step 1 of the Term Decomposition process (DocDef1, herewould be an analogy to FVT-1).

The Terms that are extracted are checked to see if their frequencies are3 for HiH3 Term and 2 for HiH2 Term, if this is asserted then therespective HiH3 and HiH2 Term are known to be the Best-Topic candidates.Such term could be stored in an array (BTC).

Now, since we have the Best-Topic candidates we need to identify theBest among the Best (in case there are a more than one Best-Topiccandidate).

The Following are Some of the Rules Based on which, an Appropriate Topicis Chosen by the Algorithm:

-   -   1. The Best-Topic candidates array or BTC is checked to see, if        there is only one such candidate, if it is asserted then that is        defined to be the Topic of the document.    -   2. If there are more than one Best-Topic candidate's in the        array BTC then the frequency of each term is calculated based on        the matching Significant Single Value Term in the FVT-1_Array.        The Best-Topic candidate with the highest frequency is defined        to be the Topic of the document. To understand this rule much        better, here's an example:    -   Assume that the following are the Best-Topic Candidates in the        array BTC:        -   i. Heart Surgery        -   ii. Heart Attack        -   iii. Heart Failure Cause    -   These are broken down to Single Value Term such as:        -   i. Heart        -   ii. Surgery        -   iii. Attack        -   iv. Failure        -   v. Cause    -   Each of these terms is checked in the FVT-1_Array to determine        their respective frequency with respect to the entire document.        We get something like        -   i. Heart→21        -   ii. Surgery→18        -   iii. Attack→15        -   iv. Failure→8        -   v. Cause→5    -   Note: if FVT-1_Array does have any such term that match with        these then the value assigned to that term is 0.    -   Now, consider adding these frequency values in Best-Topic        Candidates as shown:        -   i. Heart Surgery→21+18=39        -   ii. Heart Attack→21+15=36        -   iii. Heart Failure Cause→21+8+5=34    -   We see, that “Heart Surgery” has the highest frequency among the        three and hence it is chosen as the Topic.    -   If in case, the frequency of two Best-Topic Candidate's are        equal then any one is randomly selected.    -   3. If in case there are no Best-Topic candidate's derived from        the comparison of DocDef1 and DocDef2, then the matching words        in. FVT-1 and FN are chosen, which means the term in the ArrayY        would define the Topic of the document.

Term in Array Term in Array Matching Term Array FVT-1 FN ArrayY

-   -   -   Ex: if ArrayY has the term:            -   i. Requirement            -   ii. Management            -   iii. Plan        -   . . . as the elements then the Topic would be “Requirement            Management Plan”. The sequences of the words are basically            based on the sequence of the word occurrence in the file            name.

    -   4. If in case there are no matching terms in ArrayY to determine        the Topic then DocDef1 is compared with the words in FVT-1_Array        and the match that has the highest frequency in FVT-1_Array is        chosen as the Topic of the document.

    -   5. If there is no match found between DocDef1 and FVT-1, then no        Topic is defined to the document by the algorithm as the        confidence level to justify a Topic is out of the algorithms        reach.

If LMai is not able to define a Topic to the document, then suchdocuments are preferably not indexed by the LMai Index.

-   -   Note: The rules mentioned above are in the decreasing order (i.e        rule 1 and rule 2 are the best confidence levels of the        algorithm, then rule 3 and so on) of the confidence level of the        algorithm to determine the Topic of the document.        Therefore, for a Given Document D1, the LMai Algorithm has        Defined a Topic (T1) to it and has Also Extracted Keywords (K1)        from the Document.        Hence, for a Given Set of Documents D1, D2, D3, . . . LMai would        Give Respective K1T1, K2T2, K3T3, . . .

FIG. 6 represents the schematic of LMai extraction of the Topic andKeywords.

K1T1, K2T2, K3T3, . . . Kn−1Tn−1, KnTn would help us to identify therelationship between words/term.

Following is the Hypothesis Based on which Relationship Between Topicand Keywords is Identified:

We know that every sensible document would have an appropriate Topic andsignificant words that explain the Topic, which clearly means that thesesignificant words or Keywords are directly related to the Topic. At thispoint we try to extract the best keywords, which have occurred morefrequently as these would define the relationship with the Topic.

Basic Analysis to Identify Relationships Between Topics and Keywords:

Once, the process of identifying the Topic and Keywords in the documentis complete.

LMai uses a mathematical process for analyzing the relationship betweenthe Topics and Keywords.

Assume that there are about 1000 documents that are processed usingLMai. LMai would have identified the Topic and Keywords of each documentprovided all the documents have passed the Basic Steps.

Therefore, we have 1000 Topics and their respective Keywords. Anassumption is made that all these Topics and corresponding Keywords arestored in some form (one can use Database, File system etc. . . ).

The First Level of identifying the Relationships begins with groupingthe Topics that are identical (by the word identical we mean if two“Strings” match). For example if we have Topics like . . .

Topic Keywords T1 requirement management plan K1 T2 configurationmanagement plan K2 T3 process K3 T4 test plan K4 T5 software developmentplan K5 T6 quality assurrance plan K6 T7 project management K7 T8requirement management plan K8 T9 test plan K9 T10 requirementmanagement plan K10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .T1000 . . . K1000

K1, K2 . . . etc contain the list of Keywords that were identifiedduring the Term Decomposition.

We begin to group the identical Topics, we see that T1, T8 and T10Topics are identical as all of them have “requirement management plan”as Topics. Similarly T4 and T9 Topics are identical. We get . . .

Topic Keywords requirement management plan K1 + K8 + K10 configurationmanagement plan K2 process K3 test plan K4 + K9 software developmentplan K5 quality assurrance plan K6 project management K7 . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . .

Hence, it is evident that we compare the Topics and if they areidentical we group them or rather we could say that we add theirKeywords.

To understand how Keywords are added assume that the following are theKeywords of T1, T8 and T10:

Topic Keywords T1 requirement requirement management plan, requirementmanagement management plan organization, requirement management program,configuration management plan, design catalogue document, respective usecase, change request, requirement management, use case, stakeholderrequest, requirement attribute, requirement identification, informationsystem, requirement change, stakeholder requirement, generalrequirement, requirement traceability, system requirement, customermodule, project team, test case, requirement, project, document,stakeholder, management, plan T8 requirement use case specification,test plan requirement, unit test case, management plan requirementmanagement plan, use case requirement, test case document, requirementtraceability diagram, business system manager, requirement managementprocess, software requirement specification, use case, test requirement,requirement attribute, test plan, requirement artifact, test case, testengineer, project requirement, stakeholder request, requirement change,software requirement, system analyst, project team, special requirement,requirement document, requirement, system, document, test, management,plan T10 requirement use case specification, test plan requirement, unittest case, management plan test case document, use case requirement,requirement management plan, requirement traceability diagram, businesssystem manager, requirement management process, software requirementspecification, traceability criteria figure, use case, test requirement,requirement attribute, test plan, design requirement, requirementartifact, test case, test engineer, project requirement, stakeholderrequest, requirement change, software requirement, project team, specialrequirement, requirement document, design document, requirement, system,document, test, case, management, plan

To add the Keywords K1, K8 and K10 means to mix these 3 up together weget . . .

TABLE X Topic Frequency Keywords requirement 3 requirement managementplan, requirement management plan management organization, requirementmanagement program, configuration management plan, design cataloguedocument, respective use case, change request, requirement management,use case, stakeholder request, requirement attribute, requirementidentification, information system, requirement change, stakeholderrequirement, general requirement, requirement traceability, systemrequirement, customer module, project team, test case, requirement,project, document, stakeholder, management, plan, use casespecification, test plan requirement, unit test case, requirementmanagement plan, use case requirement, test case document, requirementtraceability diagram, business system manager, requirement managementprocess, software requirement specification, use case, test requirement,requirement attribute, test plan, requirement artifact, test case, testengineer, project requirement, stakeholder request, requirement change,software requirement, system analyst, project team, special requirement,requirement document, requirement, system, document, test, management,plan, use case specification, test plan requirement, unit test case,test case document, use case requirement, requirement management plan,requirement traceability diagram, business system manager, requirementmanagement process, software requirement specification, traceabilitycriteria figure, use case, test requirement, requirement attribute, testplan, design requirement, requirement artifact, test case, testengineer, project requirement, stakeholder request, requirement change,software requirement, project team, special requirement, requirementdocument, design document, requirement, system, document, test, case,management, plan Note: the Frequency column depicts the Frequency of theTopic “requirement management plan”

Now, we apply Step 3 of Level 1, which is the Term Frequency Counter tothe collective Keywords of T1, T8 and T10.

We get a list of Keywords with their respective frequencies. We set athreshold percentage limit of say 50% or 70% based on the accuracydesired, any Keyword that has the frequency that crosses this thresholdis extracted to be related to the Topic “requirement management plan”.

x = 50 If (((Frequency of the Keyword)/(Frequency of Topic))*100 > x)then {  Keywords with frequencies greater than 50% are identified asrelated to the Topic  }

Note x is a variable that holds positive value lesser than or equal to100.

In the example given—Frequency of Topic=3

-   -   Frequency of Keyword depends upon the number of occurrence of        the Keyword within the set ex: “stakeholder request” keyword        frequency is 3    -   “use case” keyword frequency is 3    -   “requirement attribute” frequency is 2 and so on . . .

Hence, if we use this formula we get the following list of related wordsfor “requirement management plan”. The related words helps us understandthe context to which the Topic “requirement management plan” belongs.

Topic Related Term requirement use case management plan stakeholderrequest requirement attribute project team requirement change softwarerequirement special requirement requirement document project requirementrequirement traceability diagram business system manager requirementmanagement process software requirement specification test requirementtest case use case specification test plan requirement unit test caseuse case requirement test case document requirement document managementplan system test Note: in the above list “requirement management plan”Keyword is omitted as a related word, since the Topic and thisparticular Keyword is same (redundant).

Hence, for given 1000 documents if there are about 400 Topics groupedtogether (i.e identical topics grouped as explained), then all these 400Topics would have their related words identified. In other words thealgorithm has automatically found the WORDS/TERM that are related toeach other without any guidance.

Hence, if an Index is created based on the process to extract therelationships as explained and then if we give Keyword as “requirementmanagement plan”, then the algorithm would return the related term thatare associated with “requirement management plan”. Refer FIG. 7; eachcluster represents a Topic and the list of related term (just like thelist for “requirement management plan” in the example described earlier)

With this Basic Analysis to identify related term we now move on to thenext step of “Analysis and Indexing”, which gives us much broaderdimension to identify the Related words.

Note: if a set of new documents are added, then the New Topics arecompared with the existing Topics and if a match is found for a NewTopic, then it is added to the Group with its Keywords. The process offinding the Related words is repeated. Hence, the Metonymy orRelationship list is dynamic and change based on the data. Hence,Metonymy for a given WORD/TERM is incremental.

Below is a representation of the schematic of LMai analysis forrelationship mapping or defining Metonymy.

K1T1 K2T2 K3T3 . . . KnTn K1T1 X X X X X X X K2T2 (K2T2)(K1T1) X X X X XX K3T3 (K3T3)(K1T1) (K3T3)(K2T2) X X X X X . . . . X X X X . . . . . X XX . . . . . . X X KnTn (KnTn)(K1T1) (KnTn)(K2T2) (KnTn)(K3T3) . . . X

For a Given KxTx and KyTy where x, y values within the range 1 to n if(Tx ==Ty) => (Kx + Ky) If (((Frequency of the Keyword)/(Frequency ofTopic)) * 100 > x) then Keyword Freq > x identified as related to theTopic Note: x is an integer value less than 100.KeyTerms and their HiH:

While identifying the KeyTerms, it was mentioned that there is anadvantage of doing so. If KeyTerms and their HiH term are processed in asimilar way as explained for Topics and their respective Keywords, weget the various combinations of HiH term for a given KeyTerms.

Here, we need to treat KeyTerms as a Topic and their respective HiH termas Keywords but a separate Index for KeyTerms must be maintained.KeyTerms must never be mixed with the Topics while Indexing. The onlyadvantage of Indexing KeyTerms is that during retrieval if we give aKeyword as say, for example “Heart”, then the word “Heart” could belooked in two Indexes:

-   -   1. Topic Index    -   2. KeyTerms Index

Topic Index would return the list of words related if available for“Heart”.

KeyTerms Index would return the HiH term associated with “Heart”like—Heart Surgery, Heart Attack, Heart Failure Cause etc. . .

These HiH term could now be mixed with Topic Index metonymy list, afterremoving the redundant term from the list we get an enhanced metonymylist.

One disadvantage is that, since KeyTerms are of type Single Value Term,they could be used only if the Keyword given to find its metonymy termis a Single Value Term, as it is obvious from the above example (if aMulti Value Term like “Asian Lion” is given as a Keyword then there isno point to look into the KeyTerms Index).

Important Note: Experiments have shown that KeyTerms come handy if thedata is less (ex: 1000 to 5000 documents) but for a very large data setgoing over a couple of thousands of documents, the KeyTerms HiH listwould be redundant. However, there is no harm in KeyTerms Index usage,as it does not affect the metonymy.

Therefore based on the application one must limit the usage of KeyTermsIndex.

Analysis and Indexing:

From the Basic Analysis to identify relationships between Topics thatare identical and their respective Keywords, it is clear that Keywordsplay a vital role to identify the metonymy or words that are related toa Topic.

The question now is that, how do we identify if there is a relationshipbetween the Topics that are not identical.

The solution is based on the relevance of the keyword for which we aretrying to extract the metonymical/related topics.

To understand the solution we would plugin the LMai algorithm on top ofa Search Engine as shown in FIG. 8.

Note: the Search Engine could be any typical Search Engine that iscapable of indexing and retrieving unstructured data with a decentrelevance.

The LMai Algorithm is boxed in a way that acts as a plugin to connectany typical Search Engine that is able to Index and retrieveunstructured data. Hence, there are two Indexes maintained, one by thebase search engine, which is a typical Index, and aMetonymy/Relationship Index maintained by the Plugin (the LMaialgorithm).

As seen in FIG. 9 it is clear that LMai maintains its own Index and theBase Search Engine creates its Index. The difference in the Indexmaintained by LMai is that it maintains an incremental dictionary of“Words” that are related to each other (as explained in Basic Analysisto Identify the relationships between the Topics and Keywords).

During the process of retrieval of the data, both the LMai RetrievalEngine and the Base Search Engine process the “Search Keyword” enteredby the user.

The Base Search Engine returns results based on the relevance of the“Search Keyword”. The LMai algorithm identifies the cluster (Topic) fromits index that matches the “Search Keyword” entered by the user andreturns Metonymical/Related term of the “Search Keyword” if there areany (as explained earlier).

In addition to this LMai utilizes the search results returned by theBase Search Engine to identify, if there is a relationship between theTopics in the LMai index that are not identical.

The Following is the Way in which it does:

Let us assume that we give the search keyword as “Animal”. LMai wouldfirst look if “Animal” were one of the Topics in its Topic Index. If itis ascertained that such a Topic exits, then the following are the stepsby which LMai identifies the related Topics.

-   -   1. For every document indexed by the Base Search Engine, LMai        would have also indexed it provided the Basic Steps are through        (refer Basic Steps LMai takes to process a document).    -   2. We know that for every document processed by the LMai        algorithm we get the Topic and Keywords of that document.    -   3. Now, for every document returned by the Base Search Engine as        a Search Result, LMai would extract the corresponding Topic of        the document from its Index. (One can use the document reference        or Doc-ID or whichever method is feasible to extract Topics of        corresponding documents)    -   4. Therefore, if the Base Search Engine returns “Results”={D1,        D20, D342, D500, D670, . . . } then, LMai would extract the        corresponding Topics={T1, T20, T342, T500, T670, . . . }    -   5. If the Base Search Engine has found a total of say 10,000        (just an example, could be more or could be less) results for a        given search keyword. LMai would extract the Topics of the first        100 documents returned as search results. If the total number of        results returned by the Base Search Engine were less than 100        (say for example 45 results returned), then LMai would extract        all the 45 Topics.    -   6. LMai then runs Step 3 of the Level 1, which is the Term        Frequency Counter on the extracted Topics.    -   7. All those Topics that have more than 2 frequency occurrences        are extracted as the Topics that are related to the search        Keyword provided.        -   It means, if T1=“Lion”, T20=“Tiger”, T342=“Camel”,            T500=“Tiger”, T670=“Lion” . . . etc then Lion and Tiger are            chosen as related Topics of the search keyword.            The Process Explained Above is Based on the Following            Hypothesis:

The results returned by the base search engine are based on therelevance of the search keyword; it is obvious that all the documentsthat are returned have an instance of the search keyword. The documentsthat are most relevant to the search keyword are returned first followedby the documents with lesser dimension of relevance. Hence, the topicsof the top results will be related to the search keyword due to the factthat documents having similar contents are related (a document on“Diarrhea”, would most probably have a mention of “Dehydration”, hencewhen you search for “Dehydration” the document on “Diarrhea” is alsoreturned as a result). Since, the Topic of the document content is knownbased on the LMai process of identifying the Topic. The Topic's of thedocuments returned as search results are known and these would have somerelationship with each other. At this point we try to extract the bestTopics, which have occurred more frequently.

Note: by the term relevance of the base search engine we mean therelevance criteria based on which the results are returned, which couldbe based on PageRank, Number of Hits or any such thing.

Hints to “Tweak” the Parameters:

During the process of extracting the related Topics as explained in thepoints above, some tweaking could be done to achieve better accuracy,the following are some of the tips:

-   -   1. Every Topic extracted has an associated Frequency (refer        Table X in Basic Analysis to Identify Relationships between        Topics and Keywords). Once we ascertain that a Topic for the        search keyword exits in the Topic Index, ascertain if the        Frequency of such a Topic in the Topic Index is above certain        threshold (example: greater than 3) and only then proceed with        the rest of the steps. This kind of usage has shown greater        consistency.    -   2. Since, we ascertain that a Topic for the search keyword exits        in the Topic Index and only then proceed ahead with the rest of        the steps. Therefore in this case if the Topic is not found then        extracting the related Topics is void. At this point the        KeyTerms Index comes handy but is limited to usage only when the        search keyword is of type single value term. The search keyword        is looked into KeyTerms Index and if found, its respective HiH        term are extracted as related.

I hope it is clear now the way in which the relationship between Topicsin the LMai index that are not identical is defined using the relevanceof the results returned by the base search engine.

It is evident that the usage of base search engine is primarily to actas a keyword relevance engine that returns most relevant results(documents) for a given keyword. Therefore, based on the documentsreturned LMai manipulates the related Topics automatically.

It is evident that the metonymical/related term/topics extracted basedon the relevance of the base search engine is dynamic and might changebased on the new set of results returned for the same search keyword infuture.

Now, we add the earlier extracted metonymical/related term based onKeywords from the Topic Index with the newly identified set ofmetonymical/related term based on the relevance of the base searchengine for a given search keyword. After removing the redundancies weget an enhanced list of metonymical/related term.

I believe that by now one would have understood the basic logic based onwhich LMai works.

Since, we have used search engine as a keyword relevance engine toextract the metonymical/related words. Let us understand the variousenhanced features a typical search engine can derive by using LMai as apart of its core Indexing and Retrieval process.

How does LMai Enhance the Features of the Base Search Engine?

The LMai algorithm analyzes and combines the result set of the BaseSearch Engine with the “Metonymical” term in a way that gives “ContextBased Results”.

Working:

To summarize, the revolutionary Algorithm is capable of parsing throughthe documents (that get Indexed) to identify the “Topic” on which thedocument is based automatically with a very decent accuracy as definedearlier. The algorithm also extracts the keywords from the documentautomatically. It then analyzes the Topics and Keywords extracted from aset of given documents to map the Metonymy (i.e. the relationshipsbetween the Topics that are contextually similar are mapped). This makesit possible to make a very powerful information retrieval engine, whichnot only throws results based on the “Search Keyword” entered by theuser but also would display “Topics” that are contextually related tothe Search Keyword in sections like “Search Within Topic” and “SearchRelated Topics”.

“Search Within Topic” would have the words that go Hand-in-Hand with theSearch Keyword. For example, if the search Keyword is say “Tiger” and ifthe metonymical/related words identified are like “Bengal Tiger”,“Siberian Tiger”, “Tiger Beetle”, “Tiger Shark”, “Tiger Salamander”,“Lion”, “Big Cat”, “Cheetah”, “Leopard” etc. . . then “Bengal Tiger”,“Siberian Tiger”, “Tiger Beetle”, “Tiger Shark”, “Tiger Salamander”would be listed under the heading “Search Within Topic” as these HiHterms have Tiger in them.

Where as “Lion”, “Big Cat”, “Cheetah”, “Leopard” would be listed underthe heading “Search Related Topics”.

This gives the user an understanding about the context to which theSearch Keyword “Tiger” belongs and also would give an option to searchthe identified metonymical/related words, so that the user can eithernarrow down his/her search or expand the search.

Apart from this, there is yet another strong feature that is derivedfrom the algorithm. We know that when LMai processes the documents Topicand Keywords of the corresponding document are extracted. While LMai isindexing these it creates clusters of identical Topics. Now, when theclusters of identical Topics are created, respective document referencesis also stored.

Let us assume that in about 1000 documents, 3 documents have a Topic“African Lion”. Since, these 3 documents have identical Topic they aregrouped in one cluster. Also, the document reference of all the 3documents is stored within that cluster.

When the user gives a search Keyword “African Lion”, LMai finds such aTopic as it has created a cluster for such a Topic. LMai would returnthe references of all the 3 documents that have this Topic. Based onthese references LMai returns 3 results wherein the documents portrayprecise information about what the user is looking for and these 3results can be termed as “Best Results”.

Hence, the Algorithm finds the result set where the search query orkeyword matches the Topic in a section known as “Best Results”.

The Best Results are listed on the Top. Following the Best Results wouldbe the results that are returned by the Base Search Engine. To avoidduplication of results a comparison is done to exclude those resultsthat are already displayed as Best Results.

However, Best Results section appears only when a Topic of thecorresponding search Keyword entered by the user exists in LMai Index.

Therefore, LMai adds value to the overall result set improving theefficiency of the Search.

Since, LMai tries to identify Topic and Keywords of every document,these could be effectively used while displaying the result set. Thefollowing is the way in which the Results could be displayed:

Results:

The result set displayed by any typical search engine would portray thelink and short summary of the content within that link in the resultpage. LMai offers a Novel Technique that helps the user justify the linkto select in the results displayed. The following is the way in whichthe result set is displayed:

-   -   1. The link—a click on which would take the user to the content        page.    -   2. “Related to”—Topic identified by LMai is portrayed        (optional).    -   3. “Information about”—few of the significant “Keywords”        extracted by the algorithm are displayed that helps the user to        understand the content within the link without having to visit        the page. The Keywords information help the user to select the        right link that matches the content they are looking for without        having to traverse back and forth otherwise. No search engine to        our knowledge offers this technique, which makes it very unique        and powerful.

Thus, the end users would gain additional pertinent information thatmight not have been originally conceived, thus offering an expertsearch. In short, the Algorithm portrays the capabilities to power the“Next Generation Search Engine”.

Now, we know how LMai as shown in FIG. 10 enhances the features of theBase Search Engine!

Note: as explained earlier the Algorithm is elegant enough to name adocument with appropriate Topic only if it is quite confident and nototherwise, also the Metonymical/Related words for the given searchkeyword are shown provided there is enough data on the subject and alsodepends on the confidence level of the algorithm, which means theAlgorithm seldom shows results that are not contextually similar.

Other Potential Features:

The other potential features that could be derived from LMai are asfollows:

-   -   1. Guidance to Machine—        -   In organizations, we know that there are huge sets of            documents that are collated over a period of time. These            documents could be used to extract “Knowledge” and hence,            are crucial in Knowledge Management Systems. The general            problem faced however by every organization is to classify            the existing knowledge in a usable form, which includes to            identify only those documents that actually depict useful            information and filter out the rest of the documents that            are stale. To accomplish this organizations use knowledge            experts who manually classify the information, which is time            consuming and quite expensive.        -   Therefore we understand that classifying the information            becomes a crucial part in knowledge management systems. LMai            could be used to solve the problem in the following way.        -   We have learnt how LMai has the self-learning abilities or            unsupervised learning abilities. We will now try to            understand how LMai could be used with guidance data.        -   We know that every organization has its business/functional            vocabulary that gets reflected in the documents of that            organization, we call this “Organization Vocabulary”.        -   If Guidance to Machine is provided, what we mean here is            that if we provide the “Organization Vocabulary” to LMai,            LMai will use the guidance data to classify the information            appropriately.        -   Hence, to classify the documents as per the needs of the            organization, “Organization Vocabulary” (OV) is provided to            LMai. A simple example to understand OV is as described

Organizational Vocabulary - Keywords Department Development ProjectConfiguration Requirments (Sub- Management Management (Sub- ProjectsCategory) (Sub-Category) (Sub-Category) Category) . . . . . . . . .Projects Development Project Configuration Requirements ManagementManagement Coding Metrics BLA System Maintenance Analysis Unit TestingWeekly Review Baseline Audit Requirements Meetings Analysis Unit Testproject baselines CSA Change cases Request Release Notes budget controlplan Configuration Change Control Status Accounting Board codingschedule control VSS traceability workflow plan item development ProcessWorkshop CVS Functional server Requirements — Deviation Configurationsupplementary Change requirements Management — Configurationconfiguration Requisite Pro Management Plan audits — Microsoft Product —Requirements Plan Change Management — MPP — — — Plan — — — Project Plan— — — — — — — — — —

-   -   -   We understand from the above table that OV is nothing but            significant words (Keywords) used in a specific department            within the organization. The table above depicts an example            for OV related to Projects; such OV's could be constructed            for other departments within that organization. Anyway, once            such OV is built, it is given to LMai.        -   LMai uses the OV in the following way:        -   a. We know that LMai extracts Keywords and Topic for a given            electronic document.        -   b. For every document processed by LMai, LMai extracts the            Keywords and its Topic.        -   c. The Topic and Keywords extracted by LMai are compared            with the OV.        -   d. If the Keywords match, then it understood that the            document processed belongs to the category “Projects” (as            per the table above).        -   e. Within each category LMai is able to classify the            sub-categories as well, which will be based on the            percentage of the content that belongs to a sub-category.            -   Let us assume for a given document the following is the                Topic and Keywords extracted by LMai:

Topic Related Term requirement requirements management plan | 11management plan requirements management program | 2 requirements changemanagement | 2 determining development priority | 2 traceability item |9 requirements management | 5 development team | 4 product lifecycle | 3target release | 3 tools environment | 2 software tools | 2 stakeholderrequests | 2 change requests | 2 project baselines | 2 features | 21requirements | 15 projects | 14 documents | 12 release | 8 baselines | 8customers | 8 product | 7 changes | 6 teams | 6 Note that the numbersbeside the Keywords are actually their frequency of occurrence withinthe document processed by LMai. We now add up the frequencies, which isconsidered as the “Total Weightages” or TW.

-   -   -   -   Now, compare these keywords with the OV and add-up the                frequencies of the keywords that match the OV. The                frequency obtained is considered as “OV_Match_Frequency”                or OVMF.            -   (OVMF/TW)*100 give us the identified accuracy                percentage, which could be used as a condition while                classifying (ex: any document that exceeds certain                percentage is accepted to belong to the category                “Projects” else rejected).            -   For a given document to LMai, the report LMai generates                is something like:

************************************************************** -THEDOCUMENT DEPICTS INFORMATION ABOUT----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT PLAN IDENTIFIED KEYWORDS: Projects,Configuration Management Plan, Configuration Management, ConfigurationStatus Accounting, VSS, Configuration Manager, configuration, softwareconfiguration management, Configuration Change Management, configurationaudits, Change Request, Change Control Board, change control, changerequest document, defect reports,----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  -ONTOLOGY MAPPING----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THIS FILE BELONGS TO THE CATEGORY: PROJECTS  RECOGNIZED ACCURACY: 80% THE SUB-CATEGORIES ARE:    PROJECT MANAGEMENT = 9%    CONFIGURATIONMANAGEMENT = 58%    REQUIREMENTS = 25%    TESTING = 8%**************************************************************

We can see that the Topic identified is “Configuration Management Plan”.The identified Keywords are listed. Ontology Mapping is theclassification the algorithm does, here we see that the given documentbelongs to “Category” Projects, with an Identified or Recognizedaccuracy of 80% (calculated based on the formula (OVMF/TW)*100).

-   -   Further, LMai depicts the sub-category percentages, which is        based on the following formula:        Sub-category total or ST=TW−(total frequency of the keywords        that match the keywords of a particular sub-category in the OV).        Sub-category percentage=((total frequency of the keywords that        match the keywords of a particular sub-category in the        OV)/ST)*100    -   Assume the keywords that match the “Project Management”        sub-category keywords in the OV are the following:

Project Management | 12 Metrics Maintenance | 10 Weekly Review Meetings| 5 project baselines | 4

-   -   Here, the total frequency of the keywords that match the        keywords of “Project Management” sub-category in the OV is 31    -   If the TW=175, then ST=TW−31, which gives ST=175−31. Therefore        ST=144.    -   Now, Sub-category percentage=(31/144)*100, which is 21.5%.    -   Hope, this clarifies how to identify the percentages of the        sub-categories. The percentage of the sub-category plays a        crucial role to further classify the document. In the above        report generated by LMai we see that “configuration management”        sub-category has the highest percentage of document content,        which is 58%. Therefore this specific document is generally        classified as a Project document, under Project department, it        is further classified as a document that belongs to        “configuration management” sub-category.    -   This explains how LMai classifies the data based on Guidance to        Machine. This solves the problem of experts categorizing the        documents manually in a Knowledge Management System.    -   Note: the Knowledge Management System is used as an example.        However, LMai could be used with Guidance to Machine in        whichever application that requires this type of functionality.    -   Tip: for better classification, ascertain if about 3 or 4        Keywords in the document match the OV and only then proceed with        the rest of the process.    -   2. Miscellaneous    -   Personalized Search Profile Creation:    -   There could be various other applications, which LMai could add        value to. Some of them hinted here are as follows (note, the        description given here is abstract or just an idea).    -   We know that every user have their own requirement of search.        Their search interests are specific. So every time the user logs        on to search he/she would be looking to search for his/her        interests.    -   Using LMai the search engine could be made elegant enough to        understand each user needs and return results based on the        interests each of the users.    -   This is possible if LMai can create profile of users interests        automatically. Therefore, the idea is that whenever the user        logs to search, after certain phase (based on the usage of the        search engine) the search engine gets to know the users        interests. Once, enough data about a specific user interest is        collated, LMai could help the base search engine return the        results based on his/her interest.    -   For every search performed by a user a record is maintained to        identify the various links the user visited and the        corresponding related term that were highlighted under the        sections “Search Within Topic” and “Search Related Topic” are        considered. Once, the data gathered is sufficient (a threshold        could be set, ex: 25 searches made by the user). The related        term and the “keywords and topics” of the visited results are        combined together and the Term Frequency Counter is applied. The        Topic's with highest frequencies define the users interest based        on which his/her profile is created automatically. The profile        is updated dynamically based on the consecutive searches        performed by the user.    -   Once, the profile is created it could be used as one of the        relevance criteria while retrieving the search results.

Using LMai in Robots or Humanoids:

-   -   If a robot has visual abilities, which means the robot could        read a document (whether a physical document or an electronic        document on the internet). Assume that the robot scans through        the document using the visual artifact. The scanned document is        converted to “text” using the already available technology in        scanners or some other technology.    -   Now, consider that LMai is implemented within the robot. LMai        could use the converted text information to process and identify        relationships between various words (if hundreds of such        documents are read by the robot). Assume the robot has read        documents about “Medical Science”. Also, assume the robot is        equipped with speech technology, which means the robot can        listen to user commands and reply back appropriately (such        technology is already available). If the user speaks to the        robot and enquires about the Topic—“Diarrhea”, the robot passes        the keyword “Diarrhea” to LMai. LMai finds if such a Topic exits        in its Index, if so the related/metonymical words are returned.        The robot uses these related words and could reply back to the        user by saying “Diarrhea” is related to “Dehydration”, “Coli        Enteritis”, “Bacterial Gastroenteritis”, “Campylobacter        Enteritis” etc, the robot could also narrow down the information        on “Diarrhea” by asking the user if he/she needs information        specific to “Diarrhea” like “Induced Diarrhea”, “Diarrhea        Prevention”, “Diarrhea Diet” etc. . .    -   This helps in getting guidance from a machine, in any area that        requires this kind of functionality. If not in a robot at least        it could be used in application software's that need this        feature.        A Note on Document Quality and Best Working Parameters:

The accuracy of LMai is quite decent for a given document in general.Even in the context of indexing and processing the documents on the web,which have advertisements on them, LMai still is capable of getting adecent accuracy in the range of 60% to 90%. But for documents that donot have noise in them and only depict information on a givenSubject/Topic, the accuracy of LMai is more than 90% with a goodconsistency.

For documents that approximately have about 1000 to 6000 words in them,the parameters that are marked in RED in this document are known to bethe best parameters based on the experiments conducted. However, for thedocuments that have enormous number of words, these parameters could becorrespondingly tweaked. For example, given a document with about 2000words LMai would identify about 30 Keywords from it but if the documentcontent is huge say about 100,000 words then the parameters must beincreased to a value as per the need.

However, experiment results have shown that LMai's capability to extractTopic and Keyword for a given document with huge data to be consistentfor even the parameters marked in RED. Hence, I consider the parametersmarked in RED to be the Best Working Parameters but not necessarilyrestricted to only these values.

Advantages:

-   -   Identifies the “Document Content” and provides information on        the type of document it is (basically provides a relevant        “Topic” even though the file name or title is not appropriate).    -   Identifies the “Keywords” from the document automatically (it        does not need any training data to identify the keywords as it        is the case with most of the Neural Net algorithms)    -   LMai uses a novel term decomposition technique by virtue of        which identification of Keywords and Topics is realized.    -   If “Guidance to Machine” (which defines Organizational        Vocabulary) is provided to the algorithm, it categories the        documents precisely. Guidance to Machine portrays a set of        commonly used words/term in the department of an organization.        This is required if the organization wants to categorize the        documents as per their process.    -   The algorithm would have the ability to automatically categorize        the documents and map the related ontology's based on Topic        co-occurrences, even if Guidance to Machine is not provided.    -   The algorithm, is not language specific, which means it can        process documents written in any language as long it can be        tokenized. The only thing needed would be defining a        comprehensive Stop-Lister (Stop-words) for that Language.    -   Personalized search is another powerful feature that could be        derived from the Algorithm.    -   LMai connects as a plugin with any typical search engine that is        capable of searching through unstructured data, hence LMai helps        add context based search feature to existing search engines.    -   Context Based Search is supposed to be the future of the next        generation search engines, where in the user would look for        information on a certain thing and the search engine would be        intelligent enough to return results what the user is looking        for and would also display related information as described in        examples previously.    -   The related information to the search keyword is divided into        “Search Within Topic” and “Search Related Topics”. “Search        Within Topic” depicts additional information within the context        of the search keyword. “Search Related Topics” depicts        additional information related to the context of the search        keyword. This helps to a very great extent in finding the        information the user is looking for.    -   LMai could be used to create an intelligent desktop search tool,        wherein a search result is displayed with related items that        have a relationship with it.    -   LMai could be used to make an Intelligent Knowledge Management        tool, as it would not need cumbersome workflow and domain        experts to categorize the documents.    -   In the context of web, the web-crawler would act as a feed to        the LMai algorithm, the algorithm categories the information        automatically and the data gets indexed, hence during a search        if the user searches for a Topic “Siberian Tiger” the system        would throw up information that exactly matches “Siberian Tiger”        and the agents that have a relationship with “Siberian Tiger”,        hence the system in this case would display “African Lion,        Leopard, Big Cat etc. . . ” in the result set as a related        Topic, which makes retrieval very efficient.        Proof of Concept (PoC):

The PoC is a working prototype that portrays the potential capabilitiesof the algorithm. The perspective of the PoC being developed is toachieve a patent and target the “Search” market on the web dominated byGoogle, Yahoo, MSN, ask.com etc. . . The scope of the PoC is primarilyfor demonstrating the potential capabilities of the Algorithm. Hence,this exercise must not be mistaken as a complete deployable commercial“Intelligent Search Engine”.

I claim:
 1. A computer-implemented method for advance and/orunsupervised machine learning by Latent Metonymical Analysis andIndexing (LMai), said method comprising steps of: a. inputting naturaldocuments; b. eliminating special characters to count a number of wordswithin the given document, filtering the contents of the document basedon a list of predefined stop-words and calculating a fraction of thestop-words present in the document; c. determining a Significant SingleValue Term data set and a Significant Multi Value Term data set from thedocument; d. decomposing words in the Significant Single Value Term dataset and the Significant Multi Value Term data set to extract Keywords ofthe document being processed; e. optionally, determining KeyTerms andtheir respective hand-in-hand (HiH) words automatically for furtherdecomposition, wherein the hand-in-hand (HiH) words are words that gotogether as one word; f. identifying a Topic in an unsupervised mannerbased not just on a File Name but also by manipulating/comparing withvarious combinations of document attributes that are extracted to selectBest Topic candidates and thereafter defining an appropriate Topic basedon predefined rules using a computer; and g. analyzing relationshipbetween the identified Topics and the Keywords and thereafter indexingthe Topics and their related Keywords, KeyTerms and their respectivehand-in-hand terms into a Metonymy cluster and a KeyTerms HiH clusterrespectively.
 2. The computer-implemented method as claimed in claim 1,wherein the method uses a self-learning process to make decision inidentifying the relationship between the words in natural documents inany electronic file format converted into a tokenized format before datais given to the method to perform the classification of relationshipbetween the related words without any human guidance by virtue ofdefining an appropriate Topic for a given document based on its content.3. The computer-implemented method as claimed in claim 1, wherein themethod identifies the documents with gibberish data or documents havingstop-words less than or equal to a predetermined percentage, preferably15%, which are not processed further to identify Keywords and Topics ordata having no proper meaning to be eliminated during indexing.
 4. Thecomputer-implemented method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the method isdesigned to act as a plug-in to connect to any typical search engine,which indexes and retrieves unstructured data and analyzes and combinesresult set of the search engine preferably base search engine with themetonymical terms to obtain context-based results and returns resultsfor a given search keyword that match the Topic in LMai index along withthe results returned by the base search engine and suggests the relatedTopics that match the search Keyword in separate sections in order tosearch within the Topic or to search related Topics and displays theKeywords of results returned in order for the user to select theappropriate link that matches the content they are looking for withouthaving to traverse back and forth otherwise and wherein the metonymy orrelationship index created by the method is incremental and dynamicbased on new addition of data.
 5. The computer-implemented method asclaimed in claim 1 is capable of processing the documents written in anylanguage which is tokenized and wherein documents having stop-words lessthan or equal to a predetermined percentage is used to filter out orskip the documents of other languages.
 6. The computer-implementedmethod as claimed in claim 1, wherein the method provides for advanceand/or unsupervised machine learning in robots, guidance systems,knowledge management systems, decision making machines and/or searchengines.
 7. The computer-implemented method as claimed in claim 1,wherein the method automatically creates a personalized search profilebased on the user's interest by maintaining previous search informationincludes but is not limited to various links the user visited andcorresponding related Topics that are extracted upon each search,thereafter the profile is updated dynamically based on consecutivesearches performed by the user.
 8. The computer-implemented method asclaimed in claim 1, wherein the method classifies the documentsprecisely without the intervention of experts during the process usingtrained data and/or guidance to machine and depicts the percentageaccuracy determined during classification and the percentage of contentrelated to each of the sub-categories for ontology mapping.
 9. Thecomputer-implemented method as claimed in claim 1, said method furthercomprising steps of: a. checking the document being processed toidentify a prerequisite minimal size of data and/or word articles/words;b. storing the data or words in the document in a sequential order asper their occurrence in the document; c. creating two identicalinstances of the data to facilitate the identification of theSignificant Single Value Term data set and the Significant Multi ValueTerm data set; d. determining a Significant Single Value Term from oneof the instance of the data set and a Significant Multi Value Term fromthe other instance of the data set starting from the highesthand-in-hand words range predefined, followed by consecutivehand-in-hand range terms of lesser dimension; e. storing the identifiedSignificant Single Value Term and the identified Significant Multi ValueTerm of different hand-in-hand range in their respective data sets; f.comparing words in the Significant Multi Value Term data set with thewords in the Significant Single Value Term data set to extract thosewords in the respective hand-in-hand range of each Significant MultiValue Term data set as Best-Terms, which have at least one instance ofSingle Value Terms within their range and the rest of the hand-in-handterms are decomposed; and g. comparing the data sets in such a way thatevery individual hand-in-hand range term that has at least one instanceof any term in the Significant Single Value Term data set that isextracted as a Keyword and the rest are decomposed to determine theKeyTerms.
 10. The computer-implemented method as claimed in claim 9,wherein the method automatically extracts the Keywords and the KeyTermsfrom the electronic documents without any guidance or training datagiven to the said method and extracted words and terms are stored in twodata sets, which are the Significant Single Value Term data set and theSignificant Multi Value Term data set each having the same instance ofdata that has the words stored in sequential order as per theiroccurrence in the document in order to decompose the words to identifythe Keywords in the document processed.
 11. The computer-implementedmethod as claimed in claim 9, wherein the Significant Multi Value Termdata set has its own predefined set of hand-in-hand range dimensions andwherein the extraction of the Significant Multi Value Term data set iscarried out with a first stage being the extraction of the maximumhand-in-hand dimensional range followed by consecutive hand-in-handrange words of lesser dimension and optionally the KeyTerms are used forfurther decomposition of the Keywords.
 12. The computer-implementedmethod as claimed in claim 9, wherein the method for identifying theSignificant Single Value Term data set from the given document comprisessteps of: a. retrieving words from the data set stored in sequentialorder as per their occurrences in the document; b. eliminating specialcharacters and/or word articles/words in the document by comparing witha list of predefined stop-words in order to obtain informative words inthe document; c. processing the informative words to determine thefrequency of each word occurrence; and d. sorting the processed words inorder to extract a predefined number of words with a highest frequencyto identify the Significant Single Value Term.
 13. Thecomputer-implemented method as claimed in claim 9, wherein the methodfor identifying the Significant Multi Value Term data set from the givendocument comprises steps of: a. retrieving words from the data setstored in sequential order as per their occurrences in the document; b.extracting hand-in-hand words of a predetermined range into appropriatedata sets from retrieved words, thereafter extracting words of typeSingle Value Term that are left over by eliminating stop-words into adifferent data set; c. processing the extracted words in each of therespective data sets to determine frequency of each word occurrence; andd. sorting the processed words in order to extract a predefined numberof words with highest frequency in each of the respective data set toidentify Significant Multi Value Term data sets of various predefinedhand-in-hand range dimensions; and another data set with words of typeSingle Value Term, which is the residue after Significant Multi ValueTerm extraction.
 14. The computer-implemented method as claimed in claim13, wherein the range of hand-in-hand words have value within apredetermined range, preferably 4 or 3 and the extraction ofhand-in-hand words of the predetermined range is carried out with theextraction of words based on maximum hand-in-hand range dimensionfollowed by consecutive hand-in-hand range words of lesser dimension andwherein the hand-in-hand words of a predetermined range is identified bytaking sequential words in the order of their occurrence from thedocument and adding them together with a space.
 15. Thecomputer-implemented method as claimed in claim 9, wherein the TermDecomposition is carried out by comparing the Significant Single ValueTerm dataset and the Significant Multi Value Term dataset in such a waythat every individual hand-in-hand range term that has at least oneinstance of any of the terms in Significant Single Value Term dimensionare extracted as Keywords and the rest are decomposed.
 16. Acomputer-implemented method of defining an appropriate topic to adocument based on the document content comprises steps of: a. cleaningup the document's File Name to remove the file dot (.) extension and anyalphanumeric characters; b. extracting a first few predefined number ofwords from the beginning of the document as a Document Header; c.comparing each word in the File Name and each word in the DocumentHeader with every word in a Significant Single Value Terms data set toextract the words that match into a first and a second data set; d.comparing each word in the Document Header with every word in the FileName to extract the words that match into a third data set; e.transferring the data from the said individual data sets achieved insteps c and d into a fourth data set; thereafter processing thedata/words to determine frequency of each word occurrence; f. comparingevery word in Significant Multi Value Term data sets of a predefinedrange with the File Name to extract the hand-in-hand words that match ina fifth data set, wherein the hand-in-hand (HiH) words are words that gotogether as one word; g. comparing every word in the Significant MultiValue Term data set of a predefined range with the Document Header toextract the hand-in-hand words that match in a sixth data set; h.transferring the data from the individual data sets achieved in steps fand g into a seventh data set; thereafter processing the data/words todetermine frequency of each word occurrence; i. comparing the data setachieved in step e, which consists of words of type Single Value Termand the data set achieved in step h, which consists of words of typeMulti Value Term to extract those hand-in-hand words as Best Topiccandidates that have at least one instance of any of the words of typeSingle Value Term using a computer; and j. defining an appropriate Topicbased on predefined rules.
 17. The computer-implemented method asclaimed in claim 16, wherein the topic to a given document is definedbased on predefined rules and thereafter, the Best Topic candidates'data set is checked to see, if there is only one such candidate, thenthat only one candidate is defined as the topic of the document and ifthere is more than one Best Topic candidate in the data set then thefrequency of each Best Topic candidate is calculated based on matchingthe words in Best Topic candidate data set with the words in SignificantSingle Value Term data set to extract the corresponding frequency ofeach word that matches; thereafter adding up the individual frequenciesof each word in the Best Topic candidate to derive the topic withhighest frequency and if there are no Best Topic candidate's extracted,then the matching words from the comparison of Significant Single ValueTerm and File Name are chosen as per the sequence of the word occurrencein the File Name to define the topic of the document, but if there areno matching words extracted based on the comparison of words fromSignificant Single Value Term data set and File Name, then thecollective words that are extracted based on various combination ofcomparison of words between the File Name, the Document Header and theSignificant Single Value Term data set are now compared with the wordsin Significant Single Value Term data set and the term match that hasthe highest frequency in Significant Single Value Term data set ischosen as the topic of the document and if there are no matching wordsfound from the various combination of comparison of words between theFile Name, the Document Header and the Significant Single Value Termdata set, then no topic is defined to the document by the method. 18.The computer-implemented method as claimed in claim 17, wherein themethod extracts Keywords, KeyTerms, and the topic for every documentprocessed based on the predefined rules and each cluster represents thetopic and its related words in LMai index.
 19. A computer-implementedsystem for automatically identifying Keywords, KeyTerms and Topics froma set of documents and thereafter automatically identifying themetonymical/related words by Latent Metonymical Analysis and Indexing(LMai), said system comprising: a. a document input module for providingunstructured data; b. an analyzer to identify similar words havingsingular and plural forms and to convert the words into one of the form;c. means for decomposing the words in a Significant Single Value Termdata set and a Significant Multi Value Term data set to extract theKeywords of the document being processed; d. means for analyzingrelationship between the Topics and the Keywords and thereafter indexingthe Topics and their related Keywords, KeyTerms and their respectivehand-in-hand terms into Metonymy cluster and KeyTerms HiH clusterrespectively, wherein the hand-in-hand (HiH) terms are words that gotogether as one word; e. an indexing module for indexing/clusteringTopics and their related words, and also KeyTerm and their HiH terms; f.a retrieval engine to analyze the Topics of each document duringretrieval process to identify the Topic's that are related to each otherbased on a predefined threshold limit to retrieve the context basedresults from the index/cluster; and g. a display system to display: a.link to take the user to content page; and b. Topic and significantKeywords extracted by the method to understand the content within thelink without having to visit a result page.
 20. The computer-implementedsystem as claimed in claim 19, wherein the documents are in anyelectronic format and the method is designed in a way to act as aplug-in to connect to any base search engine, which indexes andretrieves unstructured data, and said system utilizes the search resultsreturned by the Base Search Engine to identify, if there is arelationship between the Topics in the Index.
 21. Thecomputer-implemented system as claimed in claim 19, wherein for everydocument returned by the Base Search Engine as a Search Result, thesystem extracts the corresponding Topic of the document from its Indexand thereafter extracts a predefined set of Topics corresponding to themost relevant search results returned by the Base Search Engine and allthose Topics that have a predefined frequency of co-occurrences areextracted as the Topics that are related to the Search Keyword.
 22. Thecomputer-implemented system as claimed in claim 19, wherein theSignificant Single Value Term data set is identified from the givendocument by steps of: a. retrieving words from the data set stored insequential order as per their occurrences in the document; b.eliminating special characters and/or word articles/words in thedocument by comparing with a list of predefined stop-words in order toobtain informative words in the document; c. processing the informativewords to determine the frequency of each word occurrence; and d. sortingthe processed words in order to extract a predefined number of wordswith highest frequency to identify the Significant Single Value Term.23. The computer-implemented system as claimed in claims 19, wherein theSignificant Multi Value Term data set is identified from the givendocument by steps of: a. retrieving words from the data set stored insequential order as per their occurrences in the document; b. extractinghand-in-hand words of a predetermined range into appropriate data setsfrom retrieved words, thereafter extracting words of type Single ValueTerm that are left over by eliminating stop-words into a different dataset; c. processing the extracted words in each of the respective dataset to determine frequency of each word occurrence; and d. sorting theprocessed words in order to extract a predefined number of words withhighest frequency in each of the respective data set to identifySignificant Multi Value Term data sets of various predefinedhand-in-hand range dimensions; and another data set with words of typeSingle Value Term, which is the residue after Significant Multi ValueTerm extraction.
 24. The computer-implemented method as claimed in claim9, wherein the method for identifying the Significant Single Value Termdata set from the given document comprises steps of: a. retrieving wordsfrom the data set stored in sequential order as per their occurrences inthe document; b. eliminating special characters and/or wordarticles/words in the document by comparing with a list of predefinedstop-words in order to obtain informative words in the document; c.processing the informative words to determine the frequency of each wordoccurrence; and d. sorting the processed words in order to extract apredefined number of words with highest frequency to identify theSignificant Single Value Term.
 25. The computer-implemented method asclaimed in claim 9, wherein the method for identifying Significant MultiValue Term data set from the given document comprises steps of: a.retrieving words from the data set stored in sequential order as pertheir occurrences in the document; b. extracting hand-in-hand words of apredetermined range into appropriate data sets from retrieved words,thereafter extracting words of type Single Value Term that are left overby eliminating stop-words into a different data set; c. processing theextracted words in each of the respective data sets to determinefrequency of each word occurrence; and d. sorting the processed words inorder to extract a predefined number of words with highest frequency ineach of the respective data set to identify Significant Multi Value Termdata sets of various predefined hand-in-hand range dimensions, andanother data set with words of type Single Value Term, which is theresidue after Significant Multi Value Term extraction.